The following dialogue is a retelling of an emergency global prayer meeting held by Lausanne Europe on Thursday: Angela Tkachenko: My mother entered my room in the middle of the night. “The war has started.” I live in Sumy, a Ukrainian city of about 250,000 people that sits near the Russian border. One week ago, my husband insisted that I take our kids and my mother and evacuate. While we made it to the United States, he stayed behind. I immediately began panicking on Thursday.