In the Kherson region, the Russians struck farmers' equipment overnight
On the night of July 3, Russian troops attacked farmers’ agricultural equipment in the Beryslav District of the Kherson Region. According to local authorities, the farmers had moved the equipment away from the front line in advance, but it was still hit by enemy fire.
“Today at 2 a.m., you (the Russians—ed.) shelled the base with drones again. The very same one where we had already been forced to move the equipment farther from the front line in order to save it somehow. Now we have to move it 80 km away from the front line,” the farmer wrote.
He said that the Russians burned a John Deere tractor, damaged other equipment, and destroyed what people had earned through years of hard work.
As the farmer explained, in the Beryslav district of the Kherson region, they are no longer targeting only the frontline zone. Their drones can reach 30–40 kilometers, and in some cases even 50 kilometers, from the front line. They arrive at night, when people are asleep, when it’s physically impossible to constantly protect the equipment with electronic warfare systems. And they simply methodically destroy everything.
“This isn’t a war against an army. It’s targeted terror against civilians, farmers, Ukrainian grain, and those who continue to work their land. Such attacks on the Kherson region continue practically every day, and the Beryslav district remains one of the main targets of Russian strikes,” the farmer emphasized.
Addressing the occupiers, the farmer added that they may burn equipment and destroy fields, but they will never break the people who live on Ukrainian soil.
This was posted on Facebook by Viktor Gordienko, head of the Association of Farmers and Private Landowners of the Kherson Region and owner of a farming enterprise.
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