In an evening address, President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the brave Ukrainian farmers who dismantled Russian military equipment on tractors on their professional holiday - Farmer's Day.

" I want to thank our farmers today - those who defended their communities, even with their bare hands, when they stopped the Russian military. Those who, in spite of the war, ensured the sowing campaign. To those whom the military called " He also noted that now, when Russia has blocked exports through the Black Sea ports, the whole world has seen who our farmers really are and what the labor of the Ukrainian agricultural sector is worth..