#Russian aggression

CIA Director John Ratcliffe arrived in Moscow on August 25—the first such trip in nearly five years. Russia launched ballistic missiles at Kyiv the following night. Then, on August 27, the Ukrainian capital endured a record 13 air raid alerts in a single day. The timing is telling: a US attempt at diplomatic engagement was immediately followed by Russia’s most intense attack yet.

Religious leaders, military chaplains, journalists, diplomats, and international supporters gathered in Kyiv to pray for Ukraine—and to reflect on what faith, justice, and solidarity mean more than four years into Russia’s full-scale war.

From roughly 450 kilometers above Earth, Jannicke Mikkelsen was looking through the window of her spacecraft when she noticed something moving between her and the Earth below. She saw a fireball, a meteor maybe? But it behaved differently.