As charities press for mine clearance to be at centre of recovery conference, some farmers are tackling the devices themselves
In the weeks during which Russian troops occupied the Husarivka dairy farm, almost all of its 2,500 cattle were killed in artillery fire or for target practice. When the farm was liberated, the carcasses covered the land as far as you could see.
Those that were not blown up or gunned down starved. They were so hungry, they ate each other’s tails. The survivors standing at the trough in one of the farm’s wrecked sheds have stubs where their tails once were.
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