Kherson

Across Ukraine, the war has forced grain growers into a vicious dilemma. Farmers in areas now free from Russian occupation are risking their lives to strip their land of explosives before the critical spring planting season.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered the Ukrainian army to recapture the coastal areas in the southern part of the country, for which Ukraine is gathering a million-strong fighting force equipped with Western weapons, according to the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.