Ukraine's farmers risk death in bomb-strewn fields

The war's disruption of labour and displacement of farmers from their land as well as fuel shortages have all raised worries

It's spring planting season in Ukraine, but this year farmers require more than fuel and fertiliser –- they also need flak jackets and deminers to destroy the bombs that have already killed or maimed others in their fields.

"Every day since the start of the war we have been finding and destroying unexploded ammunition," Dmytro Polishchuk, one of the deminers, told AFP before heading into the field.