Dear farmers of Donetsk Region, congratulations on your professional holiday!
In peacetime, farming has always required strength, patience, and a deep love for the land. Today, however, it also demands tremendous courage. Because now, a field is not only about harvests. It is also about craters left by shelling, landmines, destroyed storage facilities, damaged machinery, and risks to the people who are simply doing their job.
Yet you continue to go out into the fields.
Because the land cannot wait. Because communities must go on living. Because bread does not grow on its own. Because Donetsk Region is not only about the frontline and destruction—it is also about people who steadfastly continue their work where the enemy wanted to leave nothing but emptiness.
Thank you to every farmer, every family, and every agricultural enterprise that continues to persevere, work, support our defenders, and help those around them.
I wish you safety, strength, resilience, reliable equipment, mine-free fields, timely rainfall, and a harvest that rewards your hard work.
Happy Farmer’s Day!