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publish date 1970-01-01 03:00:00
Amid the shelling and the dings of cannons, tanks and small arms fire during the long months of the Russian war in Ukraine, Ukrainian Natalia Popova has found a new purpose in life: to save wild animals and pets from the devastation caused by the war in Ukraine. A year, while petting a lioness with light fur like a kitten, from inside a cage, “It’s my life, the animal rejoices in the attention,” according to the New York Post.
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Popova, in cooperation with the animal protection groupUA Animals With the rescue of more than 300 animals from the war, 200 of them went abroad, and another 100 found new shelters in western Ukraine, which are considered safer, and many of them were wild animals kept as pets in private homes before their owners fled the bombing And Russian missiles.
Popova Shelter in Chubinsky Village, Kyiv Region, now houses 133 animals, becoming a vast zoo with 13 lions, two tigers, three deer, wolves, foxes, raccoons and deer, as well as domesticated animals such as horses, donkeys, goats, rabbits, dogs, cats and birds..
Animals waiting to be evacuated to Poland were rescued from hot spots such as the eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, which are witnessing daily shelling and active fighting.
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This was not the only case for saving animals from the war in Ukraine, as a convoy carrying many animals from Ukraine had previously smuggled across the border with Poland, after the first weeks of the war, on a 6-day journey, and witnessed exposure to Russian artillery fire during the escape, according to British newspaper “Daily Mail” website.
The animals, while being prepared for their exit from Ukraine and being in a rescue shelter near Kyiv airport, were attacked by Russian bombing when the director made the decision to evacuate them, and Natalia Popova, for her part, contacted a zoo in the Polish city of Poznan, before making the difficult decision about any of her 80 animals. Who has the best chance of surviving the journey, and by choosing 6 lions, 4 tigers, an African wild dog, and a capuchin monkey, Popova arranges to meet the Polish zoo staff at the border, to show them that these animals will die of “bombs or starvation”.
During the escape, after the convoy came under fire, the next day it collided with Russian tanks, forcing the convoy into hiding, but it resumed its course two days later and changed course several times to avoid the bombs and Russian forces.
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On the other hand, the Polish Border Guard Agency announced, on Sunday, that the number of refugees fleeing from Ukraine to Poland has risen to 5,322,000, since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine last February..
And the agency stated – according to “Radio Poland” in its English publication – that Poland received 25,000 arrivals from Ukraine on Saturday, while 28,100 people left to return to their country, noting that the number of returnees to Ukraine has so far reached 3 million and 437 thousand people. That’s since last February.
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