In the shadow of the Russian invasion war, 69-year-old Galyna in Ukraine continues to farm. – What else can I do during these bomb attacks, but admire what grows out of the ground, she says while the explosions are heard from the front a few kilometers away. Galyna bends over her small garden in the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine. – I love gardening, she says with a big smile on her face. She has lived here for 38 years, in the now bombed-out city. If Bachmut falls, her hometown could be the next target for the Russian army. “What else can I do?” The cultivation at the back of a three-story house has become her way of coping with the Russian invasion. – What else can I do during these bomb attacks, but admire what grows out of the ground, she says while the explosions are heard from the front a few kilometers away. Galyna, who lives a couple of kilometers from the front, will not let anything stop her from farming. – Last year I had tomatoes, cucumbers, yes – it’s easier to say what I didn’t have. I even had watermelons, she says. See Galyna’s cultivation in the player above.
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Galyna, 69, grows melons – while the bombs fall
