In villages such as Kamianka, about which ‘no one cares’, some pink recycled windows make a big difference
n the village of Kamianka, tucked into a valley near Izium in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, Victor and Larysa Sysenko were in triumphant mood: Victor had just managed to finish getting a roof on their house, in time for winter.
There was no chance of making their home habitable over the harsh Ukrainian winter, so they left for Odesa. But they returned this March and immediately started to clear up – and rebuild their shattered home. The Sysenkos and the Korniychas had been reluctant to leave after the full-scale invasion began last year. As small-scale farmers, like most of the village’s inhabitants, their homes were their livelihood: they had their cows to think of, their crops, their chickens, their greenhouses, their fruit trees.Soon they had little choice, however. “The scariest thing was the fighter jets dropping bombs,” said Larysa. “First they hit the agricultural building where Victor works.
For this dangerous task he used a shovel and a pair of long-handled secateurs – the tool the family usually uses for picking fruit ripening on the highest branches of their pear trees. For the Korniychas to farm on the usual scale the land will need to be properly demined by specialists. As soon as Unity and Strength can find the funding, there is aThe Sysenkos took a similarly pragmatic attitude to unexploded ordnance: “When I was doing some weeding, if I saw a mine, I’d get my husband.
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