UAnimals team members evacuated two cows and a heifer from Kachkarivka village in the Kherson Oblast. The owners stayed in the village despite artillery shelling because they couldn’t leave their domestic animals behind. The animals were safely transported in two UAnimals specialized vehicles to a village in the Kryvyi Rih district in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The owners followed the UAnimals vehicle, taking their cats and chickens, and then returned for the dogs.
“We woke up at three in the morning because we had arranged to meet at the village entrance by six,” said one of the rescuers, Danyil Koval. “The village is right by the river, and the owners’ house was on the last street. Across the river were the occupiers. It would have been visible from that bank, but luckily for us, there was heavy fog.”
The UAnimals team regularly organizes evacuation missions from frontline territories, rescuing up to 300 animals per month. Often, animal owners can leave dangerous territories only after arranging their animals’ transportation.
“The front line is in such a state now that they’re assaulting from all directions,” says Nina Neronova, evacuation manager of UAnimals’ direct assistance department. “People are leaving villages en masse, and we’re receiving countless requests now. But the owners of the cows in Kachkarivka didn’t want to leave until they resolved the issue with the animals’ transportation. In this fortunate case, people took the animals with them to another village. Responsible people can’t leave their animals behind, even if the situation in their villages or cities is critical.”
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