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Through the gritty industrial streets of Zaporizhzhia, a city in southeast Ukraine, Mykola Korobtsov keeps driving forward. The fifty-seven-year-old Mennonite signed up to serve as a military chaplain immediately after Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.

Korobtsov has reason to hurry: Zaporizhzhia lies not thirty miles from the front line. Constant blackouts and the risk of Russian drones imperil everyone, citywide. For four years, he has made deliveries, prayed prayers, preached sermons – in short, everything necessary to meet the needs of soldiers and civilians in the area.

Everything, that is, except bear arms himself.