Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Wednesday, April 20th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim

Denison.

Set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Timothy 4, verse 12. Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine's eastern heartland yesterday. Russian forces seized the city of

Kramina, which appears to be the first city confirmed to have fallen since Vladimir Putin's

forces launched a new phase of war.

As Russia continues to attack the city of Maripole, Ukraine is planning this morning to evacuate around 6,000 women, children, and elderly people.

The Pentagon estimates that Russia has already sent 11 more battalion tactical groups into Ukraine

and has tens of thousands more in reserve north of Ukraine who are being resupplied and ready to join the war.

In other geopolitical news, Iran's president warned that it will target the heart of Israel

if the Jewish state makes the slightest move against his country. This, after Iran accused Israel

of Zionist aggression following a clash between Palestinians and Israelis at Jerusalem's Al-Aqa mosque last Friday.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps also promised a new wave of support for Palestinians rising up against Israel.

And more than 40 people were arrested in Sweden following violent clashes between police and people,

angry at a plan by a far right group to burn copies of the Quran.

Following Sunday's clashes, Sweden's national police chief said he had never seen such violent riots.

More than 200 people have been involved in the violence, 26 police officers and 14 members of the public have been injured, and more than

20 vehicles have been damaged or destroyed. Vladimir Putin dreams of rebuilding the Russian Empire as a modern day Peter

the Great. Iran believes that the state of Israel is a theft of land from its rightful

Palestinian owners and thus an attack on Islam. Swedish street violence is pitting people against each other over ideologies.

As John F. Kennedy observed, a man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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