Russian forces carried out a nighttime attack on agricultural machinery in the Beryslav district of Ukraine’s Kherson region, equipment that farmers had moved further from the front line in an effort to protect it.
This was reported on Facebook by Viktor Hordiienko, Head of the Kherson regional Association of Farmers and Private Landowners and a local farm owner, according to Ukrinform.
“At 2:00 you (the Russians – ed.) again shelled the base with drones. The same one where we were forced to relocate equipment further from the front line just to try to save it. Now we will have to move it 80 kilometers away,” the farmer wrote.
He said Russian forces burned a John Deere tractor, damaged other machinery, and destroyed equipment that people had spent years acquiring through their labor.
According to Hordiienko, in the Beryslav district, attacks are no longer limited to areas close to the frontline. Drones are reaching 30–40 kilometers, and in some cases up to 50 kilometers from the front. He said the strikes occur at night, when people are asleep, making it impossible to continuously protect equipment with electronic warfare systems, leading to systematic destruction of agricultural assets.
