Russia-Ukraine War Enters Fifth Year as UK Announces Landmark Sanctions and Russian Soldiers Reveal Execution Orders
The fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is being marked by a sweeping new UK sanctions package — nearly 300 measures targeting Russian energy revenues in what London calls its most aggressive economic action since the war began — and by harrowing BBC testimony from Russian soldiers who say they witnessed fellow troops executed on commanders' orders for refusing to fight. Ukrainian President Zelensky told the BBC that Putin has 'started World War Three,' while the UK's Prime Minister Starmer called the war 'the most critical issue of our age.' The anniversary comes as Ukraine continues long-range strikes deep inside Russia, Norway's Klaebo won all six Olympic cross-country golds, and the human cost — documented in an AP photo essay of Ukrainian faces — continues to mount with no end in sight.
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Four Years into the War, Life Goes on for Ukrainians
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
— Psalm 46:1
As Ukrainians endure their fifth year of full-scale war — with cities shelled, families displaced, and soldiers killed — this ancient psalm speaks to the hope that sustains people who have lost almost everything. For the Ukrainian Christians profiled in Christianity Today who gather for worship between drone attacks, this verse is not poetry but survival.