Experience from Zaporozhye region.
My fellow believers and I decided to leave the occupied territory; there were 4 cars of Witnesses in the column. The road was very difficult, in our car there was me with an 11 year old child, a sister with sons 24 and 12 years old. There were about 30 checkpoints along the way, and at the last one, the cars of fellow believers were let through, but we were not, because cross-fire began. İt lasted for 3 hours.
It was very scary, we prayed constantly, but at some point in our minds each of us said goodbye to life. When it began to get dark, and heavy artillery went into action, the military turned our column around and sent us to a small remote village. On the way there, terrible explosions were heard, and the sister was quoting aloud from her memory Psalm 23. This calmed us down.
The village where we arrived was half empty, many houses were abandoned or closed due to shelling, people did not go outside and did not turn on the lights in the houses. Our column drove through the whole village and stopped at the very last street.
Two local residents seeing the situation went out and found places for women with small children to stay for the night.
It became completely dark and cold outside, and we had absolutely no water or food left. We were very tired. We thought that we would have to spend the night in the car. Everyone had already found a place to stay, but we were the only ones left in the street.
Seeing our situation, an elderly local man approached us and offered us to stay with him, and we happily agreed. The house was large, clean, comfortable, the stove was heated, there was food. This man immediately surrounded us with care. We needed to contact fellow believers who managed to pass the checkpoint and report that we were alive, as they understood that we got into trouble. There is no mobile service in this village, and in order to make a call, you need to climb onto the roof, which Sergey (the owner) suggested doing. I went with him to the roof of the house to catch the signal. On the way, we had a conversation.
Yulia: “We are so glad that we can stay with you, we are very grateful for your care!”
Sergey: “I prayed that someone would come, and I would be useful to someone!”
Yulia: “We also prayed not to stay in the street. İ can see you are a believer. What God do you pray to?
Sergei: “I pray to Jehovah God, I am a Jehovah's Witness!”
Yulia: “I couldn’t believe my ears, I burst into tears and hugged him, saying that all of us are Jehovah’s Witnesses too!”
I went into the house all in tears, and was constantly saying: “You won’t believe it, you won’t believe it !!!
Sergei took the Bible and the Watchtower with an article about the Memorial, went into the room and said: “I am your brother!”
And then everyone burst into tears, and everyone rushed to hug him !! And we cried and laughed at the same time. At that moment, we all clearly realized that it was a miracle.
It turns out that for many years he was the only Witness in the entire area of many villages, he had not seen his brothers and sisters for a long time, he had not experienced personal contact for a long time, he listened to meetings by phone. He prayed that he would meet one of Witnesses. And we realized that Jehovah brought us to him, for encouragement and assurance that Jehovah did not forget him, and loves him very much. As for us, we realized that even when the situation seems hopeless it is necessary to maintain hope and trust in Jehovah to the end. Because he definitely has a plan and knows the way out!