By Robert Anthony
Feb 23rd 2025
If you have been following my articles for any length of time then you would know that I have been long covering aspects of the conflict in Ukraine. I have several friends, almost entirely Christians, and several pastors, scattered throughout Ukraine. What you might not know is that I lived in Russia for a short time, I have preached at probably a dozen Slavic churches in America and think of myself a close friend to the Ukrainian and Russian people here in the states.
What I am about to share is a continuation of what I have been sharing for quite a while now, for certain I have been reporting on these things since the beginning of the war. None of this, mind you, has ever been reported by Big Media, not by either side of the isle, it’s alarming to say. Why no one is reporting on what is actually going on in Ukraine, boggles the mind.
A quick recap: when Russia invaded Ukraine, President Zelensky made a decision to shut the country down, men were no longer able to leave their own country, not without paperwork and that paperwork was really only available thru graft. According to my sources in Ukraine, to purchase the paperwork that allows you to leave Ukraine today costs between $25,000-50,000 USD! If you don’t have that kind of money to purchase the paperwork from the corrupted government officials, military or police, then you are trapped, forced to live in a war-front that for all intents and purposes has become a nation-wide concentration camp.
The conventional media will report on all kinds of things about the war in Ukraine but for whatever the reason, they will never tell the truth of what is actually going on over there. Ukraine has become a dystopian, concentration camp’esque, war-torn, hell-hole life for the nearly 29 million people who remain in country (Keep in mind before the war Ukraine’s population was about 43 million, one of the largest populations in Europe.)
Big Media will report on all sorts of things happening in and around Ukraine but they simply refuse to report the truth of what President Zelensky has allowed to transpire in his home country. For years not they have been quite literally stealing men from off the streets and throwing them into the war effort. This is what Big Media is calling Ukraine’s draft. Grabbing men from off the streets and throwing them into the war is what Reuters, Assoc Press, New York Times and the rest is calling the Ukrainian Draft.
I have posted several more videos at the end of the article...
Here is an article falsely portraying Ukraine to be a Lawfully run Democratic country, "Enticing Young Men into the War with Large Recruiting Bonus'" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-conscription-age-benefits-bc9a9003303af7aa13f47266c817034f. There is not one mention to what is really going on in the country - grabbing men off the streets and throwing them even to the front lines!?
Here is a Reuters article victimizing the recruiters!? Ha! Not one mention of them ripping families apart all across the nation or beating several men to death who were refusing their "Draft". https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-military-urges-tough-response-after-attacks-draft-officers-2025-02-03/
My friend Ivan has been dodging this version of a draft for at least two years now.
Ivan is a part of a religious denomination that has been known since before WW2 as pacifist. In America we recognize all sorts of religious denominations as pacifist: Amish, Mennonites, Seventh-Day Adventists, etc. In fact, it was enshrined in Ukraine’s constitution that five Christian denominations were accepted by the Ukrainian government as pacifist and would be therefore exempt from any and all military duty, including a draft. Since the start of this war Zelensky’s government has trampled this among several other parts of their constitution (also, refusing to hold elections a year ago).
Ivan has remained a very faith-filled brother in the Lord since the war's start, ready to suffer for the sake of Christ and his Ukraine. To my knowledge, he was the only pastor in Ukraine to take the matter to court lawfully (He was not familiar with anyone else in the nation bringing this matter democratically before the nation’s judges). For more than two years now, Ivan has been telling me about his court cases and even writing about it at times at American Revival Press.
It has been troubling for me over the past two years hearing what they have been putting this precious father, grandfather, pastor and patriot thru. Several times after a hearing, different military officials would meet him out in the hallway or walk with him out of the courts and threaten Ivan to his face. They forged not one but several documents trying to set a trap for him, and to fine him absorbent fees for his refusal of military service (which is his lawful right). They threatened to attack him and passively threatened his life – keep in mind these are Ivan’s fellow Ukrainian soldiers and policemen.
Then President Trump won the US Election. Afterwards, Ivan reported to me that the military and police recruiters were in fact getting worse, grabbing more men off the streets and even beating several of them to death! Ukrainians have been dying by the hands of their own military trying to escape the country at their border and now several have been beaten to death by “military” recruiters plucking them from off the streets to throw them into the war. Hard to understand how these Ukrainian military men might beat to death their countrymen for the crime of not wanting to go to war.
Try to imagine such a scene in our own nation? Could you imagine a Marine or Army recruiter beating to death a civilian for simply refusing to be drafted? For 20-something million people in Ukraine, Russia is only the greater enemy, their own government has now betrayed its people. If Ukraine survives this war and remains a nation, it will be at least a whole generation until these atrocities perpetuated on the Ukrainian people by their own government are healed. Reminds me Jesus’ words, “Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.”
So Ivan has been worried since President Trump was elected that the military men would come for him. I am unsure from where came this premonition, except that they had come for several of his friends recently, one of them even courageously escaping a military camp to where he was taken and imprisoned. Another friend of Ivan’s was almost beaten to death before being dumped on the side of the highway, seemingly of no use to the military men any longer.
It has been a solid week since I have heard from Ivan. Keep in mind that Ivan would write me several times a day and never, not once took longer than 24 hours to respond to a message or email. He seemed convinced that they would come for him. He was threatened so many times by these men, he must have been atop some list of theirs for his audacious stand against their tyrannical draft. I am so very worried the worst has happened to my friend and they have beaten him terribly in retribution for Ivan’s stand for Ukrainian law and his own personal rights.
Please pray for Ivan and his family. I have seen the conditions of the military basements and prisons where these captured men end up. I have shared several of the videos and pictures of these horrors and will share some more below.
It’s easy to criticize President Trump for reaching out to President Putin and opening up contact with Russia again. But watch any number of American movies about Russia and you’ll be convinced over and again, “Russia is the Enemy” – maybe President Trump hasn’t been watching enough Television lately? (I jest.) Or maybe the President is hoping to turn the world away from WW3!?
Maybe President Trump has a good heart and is hoping for a miracle, hoping that he can find a way to bring the world back from the brink and stave off what would be the most destructive World War ever recorded in human history!!?
Please pray for my friend Ivan and also pray for President Trump, that he might pull off a miracle for the peace-loving families of the world and save us from certain destruction.
None of us can imagine the destruction that would be World War 3. The weapons on the earth now are exponentially more destructive than those of WW2 and should Russia, China, Europe, America, etc. fall prey into another world war – we should expect not 30, not 50, but several hundreds of millions of people if not billions to die before its end. Such a conflict, the nations of the world might never recover from – such a conflict might very well lead to the end of all things.
Perhaps President Trump is wise in trying to make amends with Russia who boasts one of the largest nuclear arsenals on earth? Perhaps the news, instead of constantly ridiculing him and criticizing his efforts, should instead support the President in contending with all his heart for world peace? It's not like anyone on earth knows absolutely, without a doubt, what to do to lead the nations to peace.
I will write again as soon as I hear from Ivan. In the meantime, Thank you for your prayers. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray for peace between Ukraine and Russia. Pray for peace in our own nation’s politics.
God alone can save us...
God bless. Robert
Here is a compilation video of Ukrainians being "Recruited" - we posted to Rumble a while ago:
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