The screams of dozens of her animals being burned alive still haunt Lubov Zlobina, a farmer in the war-wrecked region of Kharkiv.
Russian soldiers were being pushed back by a Ukrainian counter-offensive after a month-long occupation of her area, marked by murder, pillaging and rape. As they retreated, Lubov, the de facto head of the village, says they mined most of her 92 hectares of fields. Then they deliberately torched the main warehouse holding 140 of her cows, calves, pigs and piglets.
