Meeting the Protestants of Ukraine

Saint Andrew’s Orthodox Church in Kyiv | author photograph, February 2025

My trip to Ukraine in February included a visit to Dnipro, about sixty miles from the front lines, where I had the chance to meet some members of the evangelical Protestant movement in the country. There is a vibrant and growing Ukrainian evangelical population, and Protestant evangelicals are prominent among the foreigners who have came to assist Ukraine’s people after the full-scale Russian invasion began in February 2022. The evolving dynamic between this minority community and Ukraine’s Orthodox Christian majority is fascinating, and the evangelicals’ transnational relationships are of equal interest since they constitute, among other things, one of the strongest “non-official” or “people-to-people” links between Ukraine and the United States.