It is a slow, silent process — and it unfolds in the dark. Yuriy Russu, who works on a farm near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, describes it this way: After sunset, he and his fellow farmers shut off the lights around their fields. Buildings, streetlights — everything goes dark. Then they wait for the skies to fall silent — the threat of airstrikes is ever present, Russu told Grid. “We wait for the fighter jets to fly away,” he said. Next, they maneuver their tractors to the patch of land earmarked for sowing. “We use the light from the tractors to plant crops,” he explained. “Nothing else. We have to keep a low profile.”
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