Europe's second largest country, Ukraine is a land of wide, fertile agricultural plains, with large pockets of heavy industry in the east.

While Ukraine and Russia share common historical origins, the west of the country has closer ties with its European neighbours, particularly Poland, and nationalist sentiment is strongest there. Crimea, an autonomous republic on the Black Sea, was part of Russia until 1954. in march 2014 Russia seized and annexed Crimea, plunging European into one of its worst diplomatic crisis since the Cold War.

In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and since then the whole country has been under severe threat, and every family has been affected by the war. But in the midst of great suffering, the evangelical churches are seeing great opportunities for the gospel, as they minister to needy people.

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