Mines, Fires, Rockets: The ravages of war bedevil Ukraine’s farmers

Written by Andrew E. Kramer Their uniforms are dusty denims and tank-tops, and so they drive tractors, not tanks, alongside the entrance line in Russia’s war in Ukraine. But Ukrainian farmers face many of the identical grave risks as troopers as they reap this 12 months’s harvest. Across Ukraine, Russian artillery and mines have killed … Read more

On Donetsk’s Front Line, Small Gains and Losses Impose a Heavy Toll

Red flames crackled within the golden wheat subject, the goal of Russian artillery simply minutes earlier. Nearby, the commander of a Ukrainian front-line unit was ending his lunch of pasta from a tin bowl. As extra incoming shells exploded within the fields, his males took cowl of their bunkers. Life on the entrance strains within … Read more