Photos: Farming in Ukraine’s War Zone

Ivan Antypenko / Suspilne Ukraine / Global Images Ukraine / Getty Ukrainian farmer Oleksandr Hordiienko carries an anti-drone gun while holding “Chuyka,” a Ukrainian drone detector that helps spot Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), while his employees work on a tractor in a field in the Kherson region, Ukraine, on July 29, 2025.Ivan Antypenko / Suspilne Ukraine / Global Images Ukraine / Getty Anti-tank fortifications, also known as “dragon’s teeth,” stand in a sunflower field on July 24, 2025, seen in the Kherson region.Ivan Samoilov / Frontliner / GettyExplosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) inspectors of the National Police examine and remotely detonate the warhead of a downed Geran 2 attack drone, after clearing dry vegetation on a farmer’s field on September 22, 2025, in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Police warn that civilians who attempt to recover explosive fragments risk death: “There have been fatal cases, including children,” said EOD specialist Oleksii Poliakov.Evgeniy Maloletka / APA wheat field burns after Russian shelling a few kilometers from the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Kharkiv region on July 29, 2022.Pierre Crom / GettyViktor, an agricultural worker, stops a combine harvester near the remains of a rocket on the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, on September 7, 2023.Efrem Lukatsky / APVictor Tsvik, an owner of a private farm, shows a fragment of a Russian drone that fell in his field in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on August 3, 2025.Andriy Andriyenko / APSoldiers of Ukraine’s National Guard 15th Brigade launch a reconnaissance drone from a wheat field to determine Russian positions, as a farmer harvests in the background, near the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, on July 29, 2024.Sergei Supinsky / AFP / GettyThe shadow of a helicopter is seen on a field of sunflowers in the Kyiv region on July 14, 2022.Viktoriia Yakymenko / Suspilne Ukraine / Global Images Ukraine / GettySurviving pigs are seen in front of a farm building hit by a Ru