Since the opening days of the war, Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a chaplain in Ukraine’s military, and his band of brothers have rescued thousands trapped between Ukrainian and Russian forces. “Right now, this is a very dangerous place,” Mokhnenko told Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN News). “Every time when we evacuate people, there are shootings and explosions.” For

Ukrainian philanthropist and pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko, who devoted his life to the rehabilitation of homeless children, addressed to the all mothers in Russia on social media.

The dream he has had for the last four months is terrible. In this dream, his children are taken as prisoners by Russian soldiers. He wakes up and puts his head under the cold water. Darkness recedes. Everything is fine, everything is where it should be: the children are safe, and he, 54-year-old Protestant pastor and military chaplain Gennady Mokhnenko, is in Ukraine, on the eastern front.

In the first days of the war, pastor and chaplain Gennady Mokhnenko evacuated the kids of his rehabilitation center, and then they began to evacuate other Mariupol residents, more than a thousand.