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A few hours ago Oleg went into surgery.

Then the drone attacks began.

Please pray for the surgery. Please pray for the drones to pass by.

On Wednesday Oleg will undergo another surgery.

Pray that as the surgeons examine how the muscle and skin grafts are healing, that they will find good progress.

Thank you.

“And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭1‬:‭9‬-‭11‬ ‭ESV‬

Thanks for praying!

After the horrific events of the other day, where the enemy attacked city centers and Oleg had to evacuate to a safe place on the bottom floor, the situation has calmed significantly.

Our injured hero is back on a regular floor (ICU beds are needed by more severely injured soldiers). But for the next 8 or 9 days the medical team is keeping him immobilized to allow muscle and skin grafts to “take” and heal.

Once certain medical markers are reached in that healing process another surgery is planned.

Here’s the prayer:

“Lord, who are El Shaddai, God Almighty, we ask for your healing touch on nerves, tendons, blood vessels, muscles, and skin. Thank you for the remarkable way that your grace has been bestowed thus far. We ask for patience from you and trust in you for Oleg and his family. We pray you will get glory through this process. Thy will be done. In the great name of Jesus, Amen.”

On a day when Russia sent more than 900 drones across Ukraine to city centers, good news about Oleg is mixed.

His mom told me that the attack today on the city center where they live was the scariest since the beginning of the war.

Oleg has been moved from the ICU because more critical patients have arrived.

He is still in a great deal of pain, and there is still much healing to be done where the grafts were taken and placed. There are, literally, many problems in his body, more than I should list here. But you can pray that our God will work through the doctors and even miraculously according to his pleasure and his will, which is perfect.

It is hard enough to be in pain in the hospital, it is made worse by having to evacuate to a lower floor because of drone attacks.

But this is the reality of war in Ukraine.

Thank you for praying.