In the Kharkiv region, a farmer lost about 8 tons of sunflower harvest due to a Russian airstrike.

In the Zolochiv community in the Kharkiv region, an agrarian lost about 8 tons of sunflower crop due to a Russian airstrike on a storage facility. Most of the harvested crop was saved, reports Suspilne. It is noted that on October 16, the Russians destroyed a grain storage facility of the "Victoria" farm with a drone strike and damaged the cars of its manager, Oleksiy Smykovskyy. The entrepreneur is calculating the damages and restoring the warehouse buildings to save the remaining crop. "There were two explosions: one here, the other nearby, at a neighboring enterprise, also a warehouse. It was very scary, honestly. Well, first of all, when I ran outside and looked at all this, thank God, all my workers were safe—nobody was in the warehouse. They were all in another, safe place," recalled the entrepreneur. The warehouse contained sunflowers. The entrepreneur is still calculating the total amount of damages, saying it could be approximately up to 2.5 million UAH. Besides ...