11:15 am: In southern Ukraine, farmers sow in their fields
For several days, AFP has been able to observe several convoys of combine harvesters and other gleaming tractors on the secondary roads leading to Zaporijjia, a large southern city still under the control of kyiv. According to Youri, a territorial defense official from Mala Tokmashka, “it’s to prevent these devices from being looted by the Russians”.
But in Mala Tokmashka, 70 km southeast of Zaporizhia and a few kilometers from the invisible line separating Moscow’s troops from kyiv’s forces in southern Ukraine, the peasants who did not flee are sowing in their potato and onion fields.