Andrii Pastushenko, 39, is a dairy farmer who lives 20km away from Kherson in the south of Ukraine, a city that has been under control of the Russian military.
On Monday, 10 Russian soldiers came and set up a base on the farm, leaving their tanks in barns, with more soldiers arriving later. But after overnight shelling by Ukraine’s military at Kherson airport, the Russian troops left on Wednesday morning.
“They quickly packed up this morning, taking two cars and food from the farm and saying they were ‘nationalising’ them,” he said, adding that they did not pay for either but said “See you soon”.
