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Of his farm, he said: "It's all wrecked. They all destroyed."

Behind the deputy minister is a wrecked locomotive, part of Ukraine's intercity fleet that was targeted in eastern Kyiv on one particularly devastating night at the end of August.

"It could have arguably wrecked the conference and stopped people from wanting to pay to come," Anderson said.

He says his first instinct was to make his way south to the kibbutz, a journey down roads he would soon see littered with bodies, wrecked cars and terrified people seeking shelter.

The money restored more than 800 wrecked buildings across the two islands.