Saturday News Notes:

SATURDAY 31 DECEMBER 2022

Morning News Notes:

Ukraine

• Russia has launched New Year’s Day strikes on Ukraine.
• A concert hall in central Kyiv was damaged.
• An elderly man was killed in an explosion after a missile strike in Kyiv.
• The Russians are firing missiles from the Caspian Sea.
• The Alfavito Hotel in downtown Kyiv was hit.
• Explosions reported in Zaporizhzhia.
• Several regions preventatively cut off power amid the ongoing missile attack.
• Air raid alerts are going off in most Ukrainian regions.
• Zelensky: “We will liberate our land.  We will win this war.”
• Explosions in occupied Crimea’s Dzhankoy and Yevpatoria.
• Residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia were damaged in an attack.
• At least three explosions in Kyiv.
• The New York Times has published an article about the problem of sabotage and spying from within the Orthodox Russian Church.  (www.lawpowerandjustice.com)
• Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson was ranting a few weeks ago about how Zelensky was trying to eliminate “religion” in Ukraine.  He played a taped video where Patriarch Kirill claimed that Ukraine was waging a “war against God.” 
• Telegraph podcast journalists (Ukraine: The Latest) were talking about what a threat it was to Putin that there was a Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine where Ukrainians worshipped and also supported Ukrainian independence from Russia.  Many Russians have left the Russian Orthodox Church since the war.
• Last week, Russia tried but failed to black out Kyiv power for New Year’s.
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Sources:

• https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/03/21/ukraine-russia-war-putin-church-242632