AFANASIYIVKA: Yuriy, a 56-year-old Ukrainian farmer, stands chest-deep in water in his village of Afanasiyivka, gazing around in bewilderment. A week ago, he was growing vegetables and fruit and grazing his cows. Now his land in the Mykolaiv region is deep under murky green water.
Afanasiyivka was occupied by Russian forces for seven months. Shelling damage is visible on the roofs of houses that now stand in water. The fields still have red signs warning of mines.
About 470,0000 hectares of agricultural land in Ukraine are still contaminated with unexploded ordnance and mines, the agriculture ministry said in April."They beat us and set our homes on fire, rockets flew over our heads here, but we survived ... Now we will not allow ourselves to be drowned."The flooding"ruined our land for crops.
"This year there'll be hunger most likely. Kherson used to feed the whole of Ukraine and Russia. Now look what they've done to us," she says.He angrily gestures at the water, calling for Russia to compensate farmers for the damage.
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