Wheatfields for Ukraine's bread are now soaked in blood

"More and more often in the newsfeed, I see posts by young Ukrainian women declaring their love for their recently killed husbands."

A Ukrainian serviceman stands at his position at the line of separation between Ukraine-held territory and rebel-held territory near Svitlodarsk, eastern Ukraine. Picture: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

Before, my wife and I hardly ever ate bread.

In the Ukrainian countryside, there is a long tradition of having plenty of bread on the table and of eating it with butter and salt or dipping it in milk. Bread dipped in fresh cow’s milk was also given to little kids, and they loved it.