Ukraine’s anxious grain farmers face uncertainty as harvest begins

A farmer harvests crops round a crater left by a Russian rocket in his field in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Oleksandr Chubuk’s warehouse should be empty, awaiting the new harvest, with his supply of winter wheat already shipped abroad.

Instead, his storage bins in central Ukraine are piled high with grain he cannot ship because of the war with Russia.