Looking out and down from the inside of a Ukrainian Armed Forces Mil Mi-8 helicopter I surveyed Ukraine as I have never done before — marvelling at that country’s measureless tracts of sunflowers and wheat fields nourished by the fertility of its chornozem soil – understanding by seeing it from this height why this land, known from ancient Greek times as the “breadbasket of Europe,” has again and again been made a ravin by the depredations of rapacious invaders.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Ukrainian soldier sits in the shelter at the positions during the rain near the frontline city of Toretsk, Ukraine, on May 14.
