Russia is targeting Ukrainian farmland, damaging unharvested grains and essential farming equipment. Farmers are increasingly expressing concern over their future livelihoods in the face of the seemingly never-ending war.
"Everything I built up over the years has been destroyed," farmer Serhiy Grigoryev told The Yomiuri Shimbun in mid-September.
Grigoryev, 53, grew wheat, barley and sunflowers on the outskirts of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk Oblast, but Russian shelling since May has left about 700 hectares of his wheat fields in ashes. The shelling, which extended to Grigoryev's warehouse and other buildings, also destroyed tillers and tractors.
