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06.06.2023 - 20:09 / modernfarmer.com
When Ihor Mistiuk learned of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb 23, 2022, he didn’t panic. He was concerned, of course. But he tried to stay calm.
Within a week, soldiers had come to his village near Zaporizhzhya, in south-east Ukraine. He started hearing of bombs dropping and deaths rising in cities such as Kyiv. He even saw bombs hitting an airfield close to his house, all the while growing increasingly worried.
Still, he was composed. Soldiers were now occupying most of the homes near him, and had cut off the ability to move freely. That was tough for Mistiuk, who farmed wheat, sunflowers and legumes over about 500 hectares of land.
At one point, Mistiuk and his father had to prepare grain for their chickens, and they needed to drive to the grain shed. On the way there, a soldier “started interrogating us. He searched our car for bullets. He didn’t find any, and he allowed us to keep going, but still, those soldiers were quite dangerous. They threatened to shell the city and kill everybody,” Mistiuk says through a translator provided by PR Army.
It was a month into the full-scale invasion, and supplies were running low. When Mistiuk realized he didn’t have enough food for his then-eight-month-old daughter, the panic finally set in. He knew his family had to flee to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
“Of course, this was not easy,” Mistiuk says, now settled in Lviv. “They interrogated us a lot at the border, but we still managed to escape.”
Mistiuk is one of the lucky ones. Some estimates put the number of killed or injured civilians at more than 25,000, with millions more impacted. Across Europe, more than eight million Ukrainian refugees have been recorded in border countries such as Poland and Slovakia. As the
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