The breadbasket of Europe is now raising a grim bumper crop of mines, shells and rockets.
Destroyed farm machinery and warehouse in Potomkyne, Kherson region, Ukraine, on April 25, 2023. Bankruptcy is looming for many Ukrainian farmers across the war-torn country who are struggling to seed crops amid widespread mine contamination in areas once occupied by …DOVHENKE, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine —
What once was the village’s House of Culture has been torn apart by shelling, its mangled roof now creaking ominously in the wind. Of the 800 people officially living in Dovhenke prior to the full-scale invasion, only about 30 now remain, eking out a living in homes deprived of electricity or running water.
“I don’t want charity. I don’t want a handout,” he said. “I just want to be able to work my land and grow my produce.” “It’s not a road, it’s not a field anymore, it’s a graveyard,” he sighed, gazing upon his field. “Sooner or later, they would have run into something.”According to Ukrainian authorities, 67,000 square miles of the vast country’s territory – or about a third of the country’s total surface area – require mine clearance, a long and costly process made all the more difficult by the ongoing fighting.
But the profits he expects from this new venture are unlikely to cover the losses of his produce and agricultural equipment, which the farmer says amount to 13 million hryvnias, or over $320,000.
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