To protect their property from raiders, Ukrainian farmers are forced to take up arms
Ukrainian farmers must defend their crops from raiders with arms in hand.
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The head of the Ukrainian Fishermen's Association, Alexander Chistyakov, spoke about this at a briefing in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The so-called agro-raiding flourishes not only in the fields, but it has already affected the Blue Neva. Now in Ukraine there is a massive “squeezing” of water bodies from farmers. Fishermen from Vinnytsia, Cherkassy, Khmelnytsky, Kirovograd, Odessa, and Kherson regions experienced particularly severe attacks; there are already casualties.
In most cases, the efforts of the public managed to resist many raider takeovers. But farms still suffered huge losses, the total amount of which amounted to 100 million hryvnia, which is almost 2 million tons of fish taken from farmers,” Alexander Chistyakov said about the farmers’ losses.
Also, a representative of the Ukrainian fisheries industry said that farmers themselves must resist raider takeovers. He emphasized that attacks on farmers occur almost every day.
“To escape from raiders, farmers are forced to take up arms. This is not a task to create armed brigades for one’s own defense, but a forced necessity. The issue has long gone beyond the stolen harvest; now blood is being shed in the fields and reservoirs of Ukraine. Raiding is a cancer on the body of the agricultural sector that needs to be eliminated. Ukrainian media report almost every day about shootings involving farmers. Raiding is a threat to the lives of all farms in Ukraine. This is not just a seizure of enterprises, these are military operations that are already taking place throughout the country,” he said.
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