War leaves Ukraine farming village queueing for food

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The Russian invasion force that crossed the border on February 24 did not quite reach little Lebyazhe, as Ukrainian troops scrambled to defend routes to the country's second city, Kharkiv theSun thesundaily Ukraine Russia Kharkiv UN

Local residents wait to receive boxes holding 12 kilos of basic food provisions, enough to feed one person for one month during a food ration distribution at a shop in the former frontline village of Lebyazhe/AFPPix: Ukraine's farmland is famed for its rich black soil and considered a breadbasket for the world, but on Thursday, after months of war, residents of a frontline farming village were queueing for food.

“It’s been terrible, terrible. I can’t even describe it,“ said 75-year-old Galina Mykhailivna, hunkered down while waiting for food rations in front of a village cultural centre with a gaping shell hole in the facade. But on Thursday, community leader Olexander Nesmiyan -- the tallest man in the village -- was overseeing the distribution of food parcels.

 

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