Sari @sarikorpi@dingdash.com

The lyrics of the song in English:

Hail Ukraine! May your honour ring out, as a cry for the dawning tomorrow!

May your strength and the flame of your love demand, make a free land!

Proud Ukrain! Do not falter now!

The dawn of the nations will come one day.

Calmly and steadily repel your peril,

or flash fire if need be!

Beautiful Ukraine, the salt of nations!

You have the flag and we have the road.

With you in the storm stand Finland and Poland,

Also Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Forwards, Ukraine! You are not a slave, if you yourself wish and want it.

Do you hear the choir great and graceful like the sea of nations fading?

New Ukraine, wonderful, vast!

You wide streams glimmer,

And in your purple flowers of freedom blossom

Mordovia, Grusinia, Perm and the rest!

The time has come for the peoples of Europe to rise; break the chains imposed by the Tzars!

Shine; Ukraine! Ready your bow,

shine the road of Republics to come!

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/terve-ukraina-hail-ukraine.html

In Helsinki, Finland, outside the Russian Embassy, gathered a group of people couple of days ago to show their support to Ukraine. The choir sang a 100-year old song called "Terve Ukraina" (Hello Ukraine) written originally by Finnish poemist Eino Leino. Finland was standing then, and likewise is standing today, beside Ukraine.

https://m.facebook.com/kupliva

(It's the latest video on the page)

I received (yesterday) this forwarded message from a sister in Christ in Finnish, and again my own translation of it to English:

"We got a message yesterday from our friend in Kiev:
I want to encourage you with the words of our known soldiers and of other common people who are coming from different warfronts. They tell:
"We feel your prayers. Sometimes happens something very inexplicable, like an invisible hand really would direct the bullets and other ammunitions away from us so that they fly us by. We get victories in very difficult situations, like if someone was guiding them. We become invisible to our enemy, but we self can see them in complete darkness so that we know what and how to react. All of this is giving us courage and strenght. We believe that the Lord Jesus himself is protecting Ukraine. We ask you, please, don't quit your prayers, but keep on praying. We need you!"

The coming night and tomorrow day are critical moments. At stake is everything, what the whole civilisized world believes and what it has built so far.

With tears in our eyes we request you, no matter on what time zone you are in, to spend time in prayer and fasting in front of God. 🙏

Pray the Lord to protect us from insane armies, which wants to mock at the cost of faith and God's truth.

We ask you to share this message to all your friends, relatives and acquaintances in Europe, Asia, America and all over the world!

Prayer is stronger than the strongest enemy🙏🙏🙏!

Your brothers and sisters from Ukraine 💙💛

I just a moment ago received a forwarded message in Finnish from Christians in Ukraine. I made my own translation of it to English (as best as I could) to post it also here:

An urgent message from
Vitaly Orlov

Sumy's Christian church's
Pastor/Bishop,
Verkhovna Rada, Kiev

Beloved friends, brothers and sisters from all over the world.

We appeal to you in this dark time for all of us, when the black clouds of bombs cover the sun over our capital city.

This night the elite specialforces of the Russian federation together with Tsetsenian units attacks one of the world's oldest (from 400 A.C) and most beautiful cities, the spiritual capital of East-Europe - Kiev🇺🇦.

At this moment there are streetfights going on in Kiev. Everyone who are able to hold a gun in their hands; even senior citizens, students and pupils, have raised up to defend the city.

(Continues...)

This BTJ video came up on a random search. Brother Yun is so right! We truly need this.

https://youtu.be/bM4IOvHa_wI