June 2023

● helped more than 22,993 animals (more than 5,300 animals received financial assistance, 2,098 animals were sterilised, 15,213 animals were sent food, and 382 animals were evacuated)

● we spent a total of 33,753,674 hryvnias. This amount includes financial assistance, payment for sterilisations, reconstruction of shelters, project implementation, purchase and shipment of feed, logistics, purchase of medicines and treatment, evacuation, costs of supporting wild animals of the Natalia Popova Wild Animal Rescue Centre and UAnimals, administrative expenses and purchases on request.

● 87,367 kilograms of dog and cat food were shipped from our warehouse to 50 cities/towns in Ukraine. A significant part of the food, cages, carriers, etc., was sent to the Kherson region;

● sterilised 2,098 animals as part of our free sterilisation programme for stray animals in more than 30 cities across Ukraine;

● our legal department submitted 3 statements to the police regarding animal cruelty, 1 statement to the UN regarding ecocide, 1 appeal to the Kherson State Emergency Service, 7 agreements and 1 additional agreement. Participated in the discussion of the draft law “On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on Improving the Protection of Flora and Fauna”, provided consultations on animal protection issues received by the hotline, and dealt with other applications, letters, memoranda, orders and requests.

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– delivered 722 kg of dry speciality food and 4188 pouches to Animal SOS Odesa, the Chance shelter in Kherson, and the Avelen Rehabilitation Centre for Wild and Exotic Animals in Odesa for evacuated animals with special nutritional needs;

– distributed 26,845 kilograms of food for more than 10,000 dogs and cats in Kherson;

– transferred 1,300 kilograms of food to the Chance shelter in Kherson;

– sent 300 kilograms of food for animals in Afanasievka, Mykolaiv region;

– delivered 600 kilograms of food to the military at checkpoints in Kherson region who have animals under their care, as well as to residents with animals in Kherson region;

– delivered 965 kilograms of feed and animal evacuation cages to volunteers working in the villages of Kizomys and Tomina Balka in the Kherson region;

– transferred 260 kilograms of feed and 2 animal evacuation cages in the Kherson region;

– transferred 1,000 kilograms of feed to the village of Komyshany, Kherson region;

– delivered 1,300 kilograms of feed to Vovchansk during an evacuation flight;

– delivered 250 kilograms of feed to a volunteer for distribution in the Kherson region. Yuriy Makhotin applied;

– distributed 500 kilograms of feed during an evacuation flight to Donetsk Oblast (Lyman, Toretsk, Kramatorsk, Velyka Novosilka);

– donated 100 cages and 150 carriers to Garantia for volunteers and rescue teams in Kherson;

– delivered 24 tonnes of drinking water for Kherson residents and animal rescue teams;

– donated 5 tonnes of drinking water for Kherson and the region to the International Charitable Foundation Day by Day, part of which was transferred to the Odesa Police Department, which is involved in the evacuation;

– assisted with the purchase of feed and veterinary medicines for 1,332 animals in the temporarily occupied Berdiansk, Hola Prystan, Nova Kakhovka, Mariupol, Tokmak, as well as Vasylivka and Vesele (Zaporizhzhia Oblast);

– procured and delivered vaccines, treatment preparations, antibiotics, wound care sprays, ear drops, injection solutions, syringes, and joint cooling gels (for horses) for 21 horses and 2,111 dogs and cats to shelters in Babintsi and Mercy in Khotyn, NGO “Pride” in Mykolaiv, Olena Taran’s shelter which was evacuated from Kherson, Ruslana Kulbida’s shelter in Kryvyi Rih which took in rescued animals from Kherson, NGO “Animal SOS Odesa”, as well as volunteers from Kharkiv and IDPs from Bakhmut, and the “Pegasus” shelter in Dnipro region;

– paid for urgent surgery for a seriously ill evacuated cat Kuzi from Orikhiv;

– transferred assistance to pay for the treatment of Kashtan, a dog evacuated from Kyiv region and now under the care of Tatiana Vozna;

– helped to pay for the treatment of 1 injured cow in Khmelnytskyi region;

– paid for an ultrasound and the purchase of veterinary medicines for the treatment of 1 cat, Hera, evacuated from Kherson region;

– helped pay for the treatment of 13 cats and 1 dog evacuated from Kherson. Now, the animals are under the care of the NGO Rehabilitation Centre “Avelen”;

– helped to pay for the initial examination, vaccination and hospitalisation in a veterinary clinic for 5 dogs and 4 puppies evacuated from Kherson, after which the animals were transferred to the care of the Sumy Society for the Protection of Animals;

– Supported the CO “Nastup” in Snihurivka, which requested to purchase surgical equipment (scalpels, surgical needles, thermal bags, vaccines) for the veterinary hospital that was damaged and looted;

– supported the Kramatorsk Regional Landscape Park, which has 70 animals under its care (wild pigs, rabbits, donkeys, sheep, roe deer, spotted deer, foxes, peacocks, pheasants, swans) and donated assistance for the purchase of hay, wheat, and oats;

– assisted with purchasing fodder for the NGO “Zelenyi Hai” in Dnipropetrovs’k oblast, which requested help for the evacuated animals. Currently, the centre has 705 animals (horses, ponies, donkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, roe deer, rabbits, cats, dogs and many others);

– purchased 10 cages for the Pegasus shelter in the Dnipro region, which receives evacuated animals, 10 cages for the Chance shelter in Kherson, and 6 cages for the Ruslana Kulbida shelter in Kryvyi Rih, which receives evacuated animals;

– supported the Avelen Rescue Centre in Odesa and donated aid for 2 dogs and 13 cats rescued from Kherson and the region, which have been under the centre’s care since 7 June. The dogs were injured and were undergoing treatment;

– paid for the evacuation of 20 horses from the village of Gannivka, Donetsk Oblast;

– provided financial assistance for the purchase of a motorised mower for grass cutting at the request of the NGO AC “A-D” (Gozhuly, Poltava region), which has 22 horses and ponies under its care (they have been taking in evacuated horses during the war);

– assisted with the purchase of a syringe for the NGO “Step to Animals” (Chernihiv);

– purchased 23 cages for evacuation flights;

– transferred funds to the Sumy Society for the Protection of Animals, which takes care of 550 animals, including those evacuated from Kherson and Donetsk regions, to build 8 modular enclosures;

– provided financial assistance to the NGO Kovcheg, which takes care of 800 animals in the village of Fasova, for the construction of a quarantine facility;

– purchased profiled sheets for a fence for a home for 15 animals in Kramatorsk;

– supported the Nizhnedniprovsky National Nature Park;

– supported teams of volunteers and representatives of NGOs, charities, shelters, and rehabilitation centres that rescued injured animals in Kherson and the region after the hydroelectric power station explosion. In particular: helped Oleksandr Tytarchuk (NGO A-Himsa) to purchase equipment for evacuations (nets for catching, gloves, collars); provided assistance to volunteer Daria Bezdrabko to buy motors, fuel, and equipment for evacuations; provided aid for the maintenance and treatment of injured animals and the purchase of feed for the Phoenix charity organisation, volunteer Olena Butto, the Women’s Veteran Movement, the Avelen Centre for Wild and Exotic Animals Rescue and Rehabilitation in Odesa, the Wings Foundation, the 4 Paws shelter in Kherson, and the South Ukrainian Dog Shelter, Chance shelter in Kherson, volunteer Gagua Iryna, NGO Bim Kropyvnytskyi, NGO Pegasus, NGO Kitty’s House, Mokri Nosy, Sumy Society for the Protection of Animals, Kyiv Tails, Dom Sirka shelter, Unbreakable Hearts, Zooplatform, Vykhor Unity, Zolota Pidkova, Pride, Gostomel animal shelter, and the Kyiv Animal Protection Society; supported the CO Charitable Foundation “I am Kherson”, which received and distributed humanitarian aid (food, veterinary medicines, carriers) for Kherson residents with animals; helped the CF “Monami” to pay for the treatment of evacuated animals and arranged kennels for evacuated animals with guardians; supported the CF “Wings of the Foundation” with the purchase of food packages and food for Oleshky; assisted the NGO “ECO Brovary” with the investment of feed, gas burners, and the delivery of humanitarian supplies to villages in Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, the NGO “Zaporizhzhia Animal Protection Service” with the delivery of humanitarian supplies to villages in Kherson region, and the Charitable Foundation “Dnipro Animals” and the NGO “UNITED PLANET” and the private entrepreneur Rubey with the transportation of humanitarian supplies;

– purchased and donated 3 water tanks and taps for Ruslana Kulbida’s shelter in Kryvyi Rih, which takes care of 172 cats and 86 dogs, as well as 3,000 litres of water and tanks for Kotofeya shelter in Nikopol, which takes care of 120 cats;

– purchased equipment for rescuers in Kherson to help them rescue people and animals affected by the flooding of Kherson and the surrounding areas, as well as to clear mines and shells effectively;

– evacuated 213 animals from Kherson and the region, 144 from Donetsk region (Chasiv Yar, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, Yasnohirka, Sloviansk) and 25 from Zaporizhzhia and the region;

– launched the UAnimals Community project. Three hundred seventy-one volunteers have already joined the project. As part of the project, they have already poured water for animals near homes and offices, distributed 200 kilograms of feed in Kharkiv and Poltava regions, made designs for the Wild Collection and reminded people about it;

– launched an urgent collection to save animals from the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station disaster, raising UAH 31 million 424 thousand 179;

– partner Portmone joined the Wild Fundraiser;

– launched the UA Teens project to collect 5 first aid kits for animals;

– received 2,466 kilograms of feed from Josera;

– Received 500 kilograms of food from Home Foods to help animals affected by the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station;

– received 600 litres of fuel from OKKO;

– received 40 tonnes of water from Morshynska to help people and animals affected by the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station;

– received 1,000 litres of fuel from AMIC;

– received a reliability certificate from CAF America;

– posters with stories of animals rescued by UAnimals from the war zone were displayed at the annual Blesk Tlapky 2023 dog festival in Prague;

– transported 6 lions from our Wildlife Rescue Centre to foreign rehabilitation centres;

– some single pickets and organised actions calling on governments to punish Russia for the ecocide (caused by the hydroelectric dam explosion) took place in Austria, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Canada, Estonia, Croatia, Ireland, Spain, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Hungary, the United Kingdom, and the United States;

– sent an official appeal to the UN Human Rights Council calling for the establishment of a special international tribunal for Russia’s environmental crimes during the war in Ukraine;

– German designer and stylist Frank Peter Wilde, at our request, recorded a video for his subscribers about the terrorist attack on the hydroelectric power station and this environmental crime;

– launched a chatbot about a temporary shelter for affected people with their animals;

– signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine to promote
humanistic values in the educational process.

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