On Ukraine’s once sleepy frontier with Romania, you can hear the Shahed drones long before they explode.
For the first 18 months of the war, Ukrainian Bessarabia — a remote landscape of marshes, lazy rivers and burial mounds favoured by holidaymakers and naturalists — was largely untouched by conflict.
Hundreds of miles from the nearest ground-fighting, it became a destination for refugees attracted by safety, a balmy southern climate, and the general air of peace and normality on the waterfront.
Now, it has become a frontline in Russia’s attempts to throttle Ukraine’s last major grain-export route.
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