October the 6th was the Friday I was joined by 2 Ukrainian instructors, Polukhin Stanislav and Alina Shakhova, to teach two classes that day. The first was from 9am till 1pm; the second started at 2pm and went on until 6 that evening. Each class had ten students, some were fresh […]
Yearly Archives: 2023
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October 2023Today they have sworn the Oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people. “Today you join a very large police family. So be solidary with each other in the hardest days of service.” Michael Bates, Senior Police Officer of the Special Operations Management Rapid Response Unit, Houston (USA), addressed the […]
A female officer working for patrol police in Ukraine has taken on the responsibility of caring for the animals that the patrol police officers find during their searches of abandoned buildings or territories destroyed by the war. The majority of the animals are able to be placed with large animal […]
These photos are from a missile attack on Kyiv the day before I went on my May (2023) mission trip. A residential building was struck and the destruction was devastating. First responders, both fire and police responded over many hours to save the lives of citizens trapped in the building. […]
The video shows bombing from the other night near where I am staying. Air raid shelters are all over to provide some protection from shrapnel. The rest of the images show the destruction from the bombing.
Today, May 9,2023, I attended the one-year anniversary memorial for the first Ukrainian police officer who had died in the war. That’s the same officer whose body I assisted in retrieving last year and whose funeral I attended.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and […]
“… I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – excerpt from the poem by Robert Frost