


Ukraine’s front-line farms battle Russians and weather
Heat, drone attacks and recruitment drives are shrinking harvests
“THEY ARE coming more and more often,” the farmer says angrily. Driving out of his yard he had quarrelled with a woman with a clipboard, accompanied by a policeman, checking whether he had any men who could be mobilised for the army. In another part of the farm he turns the car over to a colleague. On the way to a storage area she spots a distant plume of smoke in the fields. “Get the fire brigade!” she yells into her phone. As she parks by a warehouse, two women shovelling grain spot the police car behind her and shout to a male colleague: “Hide!”
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