Hi, I'm Jim Denison, CEO of Denison Ministries, and this is my daily article for Monday, February 28, 2022.

The title is, Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, the latest from Ukraine and a biblical call to courage.

A Ukrainian delegation arrived this morning at the border with Belarus for talks with Russia.

The president, Volodomir Zelensky, expressed little hope that the meeting would end the war.

Mr. Zelensky is not attending the meeting, but said his country would push for, quote,

an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops.

This news comes as Belarus prepares to send soldiers

into Ukraine to support the Russian invasion. Yesterday, Russian forces pushed into Kharkiv, Ukraine's

second largest city, but it remains under Ukrainian control. Russia is facing more resistance

than it was expecting in the capital, Kyiv, which is still under

Ukrainian control at this moment. Meanwhile, in what the Associated Press calls dramatically

escalated East-West tensions, President Volodymyr Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces to be put

on high alert yesterday in response to what he called aggressive statements from leading

NATO powers. The Russian leader threatened last week to retaliate against any nation that

intervened in the conflict in Ukraine, specifically raising the specter of his country's status

as a nuclear power. Nuclear weapons are not the only catastrophic way this conflict could escalate.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Trust warned yesterday that Putin could use, quote, the most unsavory

means, in quote, including banned chemical or biological weapons. In the face of this growing

crisis, boldness is the order of the day. A Ukrainian soldier

blew himself up to destroy a bridge in an effort to stop Russian tanks from invading his country.

An 80-year-old Ukrainian man showed up to volunteer, saying he wanted to fight to protect his

grandchildren. A Ukrainian couple got married on the day of the

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