This article is part of a series about life during the war in Ukraine.
In Oleksandro-Shultyne, Ukraine, the bombardment began at night, with rockets raining down and every house on one street blowing up, scattering bricks and debris. At dawn, medics stationed in the village ventured out of a cellar, looking for human casualties. Instead, they saw four older villagers, all apparently unhurt, leading a cow wounded by shrapnel. The medics decided to treat the animal.
“We are used to human doses and didn’t know how much painkiller to inject, but figured out approximately,” said Volodymyr, a combat medic in the Ukrainian Army, who asked to be identified only his first name in keeping with military rules. “After that, we extracted all the shrapnel we could find and treated the wounds.”
Home farming is widespread in Ukraine. In frontline villages where most residents have fled because of the war, those who stayed behind often did so because they didn’t want to abandon dairy…
2023-04-25 00:39:48
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