Retrospective 2022 in the fruit and vegetable business of Ukraine

Summing up the results of the outgoing year, I always want to give it some capacious description, add a sonorous epithet to it, describing its results and results in one or a few words. But for the outgoing year it turns out to be a difficult task. What was the year 2022 for Ukraine, its inhabitants, the economy, and what epithet does it deserve? “Tragic” sounds too banal, “turning point” sounds too pretentious, and “extraordinary” does not convey all the horrors and hardships that it brought. "Gloomy" is also not suitable, because the country has not plunged into darkness, which some dwarfs dream of. It cannot be called “ambiguous” either, since for any sane person on February 24 everything became extremely unambiguous. Perhaps the closest description of the outgoing 2022 may be “a year of losses, a year of hopes”. Someone lost a loved one this year, someone lost their business, and Ukraine lost a significant part of its territory. But at the same time, 2022 in Ukraine is the ...