serhiy svyrydenko came to the village of ivanopillya eight years ago. the entrepreneur fled donetsk, where he ran a retail business. >> what else can you do in a village? i couldn't do nothing. i'm not used to working for others. i'm an entrepreneur. reporter: it wasn't love of nature that drove serhiy's move back to the land. in donetsk, he was known as a ukrainian activist. when pro-russian separatists took power, he had to flee behind ukrainian lines. he learned how to run a farm from the internet. now, the brutality of war has caught up with him again. recently, a bomb landed only a couple hundred meters from his house. >> soldiers were quartered here for a while. they moved in here, then they were attacked. i think there were some nice neighbors who told the enemy about them. reporter: serhiy suspects that some people here secret sympathize with russia. for his part, he makes no secret of his dislike of ukraine's neighbor. he himself spent two years fighting on the front lines, just 15 kilometers from here. in recent years, the situation had remain

serhiy svyrydenko came to the village of ivanopillya eight years ago. the entrepreneur fled donetsk, where he ran a retail business. >> what else can you do in a village? i couldn't do nothing. i'm not used to working for others. i'm an entrepreneur. reporter: it wasn't love of nature that drove serhiy's move back to the land. in donetsk, he was known as a ukrainian activist. when pro-russian separatists took power, he had to flee behind ukrainian lines. he learned how to run a farm from the internet. now, the brutality of war has caught up with him again. recently, a bomb landed only a couple hundred meters from his house. >> soldiers were quartered here for a while. they moved in here, then they were attacked. i think there were some nice neighbors who told the enemy about them. reporter: serhiy suspects that some people here secret sympathize with russia. for his part, he makes no secret of his dislike of ukraine's neighbor. he himself spent two years fighting on the front lines, just 15 kilometers from here. in recent years, the situation had remain