August Mission’s Post

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It's hard to believe that it has been nearly 1100 days since the beginning of the full scale invasion of Ukraine and 11 years since the war began in 2014. And we mourn the tremendous loss of life and honor the soldiers, Ukrainian soldiers and civilians that have paid the ultimate price for freedom, for their families and for a sovereign Ukraine. With so much out of our control, it's just remarkable to me to see Utah band together. And I wanted to say thank you to the Utah Ukraine Association and the diaspora here in Utah for your resiliency, for your support, for your love, for your leadership. Really grateful for the wonderful people that organized this rally and have stood strong as a body throughout this conflict. As I said, I'm so proud of Utah for our state's leadership as well for their support of Ukraine, for standing with Ukraine, for galvanized, being galvanized around this cause and not caving as we see support, you know, waning around the country. Our state leadership has stayed strong in this regard. Three years ago there was a rally just on these three years ago tomorrow, I think it was on these very steps that my good friend Owen Fuller will will talk more about. He organized it. We had state leadership here. We had our legislative, our legislators were in session and they all came out, including Representative Jordan Tusher, who's here with us. So proud of all the great work that he's doing and his support of Ukraine. But all those legislators came out and again. Owen well, in probably representative toucher, we'll speak more to that. I'll leave that for them. But just incredibly proud to see the Ukrainian flag atop this capital. That is the first time a foreign flag was raised on our capital. And to see and wash in in blue and yellow and buildings all over the state was remarkable. You Utah led the first trade delegation to Ukraine since the full scale invasion. That is incredible. When we saw the world flee from Ukraine and millions of refugees, of course pouring outside of its borders, Utah ran towards the conflict to say, OK, we will. We can, What can we do? We can support economically. We can build economic ties between Utah companies and Ukrainian companies to support their economy. That's exactly what we did. That was led by our.