NOVEMBER 2023

In November, we helped 11,352 animals: evacuated 152 animals, spayed and neutered 1,917 animals in the fire zones, sent 16,815 kilograms of food, fed 6,468 cats and dogs, and assisted 2,815 animals financially.

💵The total amount of financial expenses was UAH 12,037,113. It included financial aid, sterilisation costs, shelter reconstruction, project implementation, food purchase and shipment, logistics, medicines and treatment, and evacuation.

In November:
🚚152 animals were evacuated from the frontline areas, namely from Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia. One of these animals is a cow from Fedorivka.

🔅Sterilised 1,917 animals: 1,189 cats and 728 dogs.

We shipped 16,815 kilograms of feed from our warehouse for 6,468 animals;

We treated 15 animals evacuated from the frontline areas. Among them are dogs Mishka and Alice, 11 kittens from Kherson and a cat named Kherson with three bullet wounds.

👆We fought for animal rights and participated in animal protection bills: we made 16 statements and appeals, participated in two court hearings, and advised and provided legal support to requests that came to us in private messages.

☕️ Launched the buymeacoffee platform and are happy to see donations already coming in.

💨 We have launched and quickly closed the Winter Fundraiser – and now the animals will stay warm thanks to you!

Find out more about November:
🐾We closed the fundraiser to cover the treatment of 2 evacuated animals and transferred the money for the surgeries for:

🐶Myshka, the dog who was evacuated from Orikhiv with bullet wounds (now Myshka is in Zaporizhzhia under the care of the Charity Foundation “Chance Animal Protection Service”);

🐶Alisa, the dog evacuated from Orikhiv with a paw injury (we paid for vaccination, tests for viral diseases, surgery (arthrodesis of the joint), inpatient stay in the clinic, and purchased the necessary medicines (antibiotics, wound treatment) for rehabilitation, after which we transferred the animal to the Step Up centre in Kyiv. The dog could not stand on its paw due to muscle atrophy.

🐱Paid for jaw surgery for a cat evacuated from Kherson. The cat’s jaw was reassembled, and part of the tongue had to be amputated because of necrosis. After the operation, the haematoma on the animal’s head began to dissolve so the eye could be saved. Now, the animal is in Kyiv, at the Kotonoski shelter.

🐱Paid for the treatment of 11 cats evacuated from the city of Kherson after the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. The animals were taken into the care of the shelter “Dvornyazhkam Dom” in Kyiv in serious condition. They were treated for a long time in a viral hospital for herpesvirus, microsporia, panleukopenia and calcivirus.

🐾Supported the NGO “Help and Protection” and paid for the treatment of an Altai balaban, which volunteers rescued from inappropriate conditions and placed under the care of the rehabilitation centre “Nyushanikove Estate” in Kyiv region.

🐾Paid for the surgery of Dasha, the shepherd dog evacuated from Kherson with a fractured front leg. Now, the dog is in Kharkiv under the care of Radmila Chernenko.

🐾Supported the Avelen Rescue Centre in Odesa and helped to pay for the operation on the hoof of the horse Ryzhik, evacuated from Kherson.

We provided financial assistance for 36 dogs, 28 cats, and 15 goats to buy food and veterinary medicines. They are under the care of Iryna Shubakova in Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi (Kharkiv region), where the fighting is ongoing.

🐾Supported the Free Wings Rehabilitation Centre in the Lviv region, which has 274 birds under its care, and donated food.

🐾Supported the NGO Fatum in Mykolaiv region, which takes care of more than 100 animals (dogs and cats) by assisting in purchasing rabies vaccines and 12 cubic metres of firewood to heat the shelter.

🐾Purchased 7,500 kilograms of food for dogs, puppies and cats and 4,980 kilograms of extruded dog porridge to be distributed to shelters/volunteers in the frontline regions.

🐾Purchased food, 10 cages, a tactical first aid kit, a helmet and a bulletproof vest to equip an evacuation vehicle.

🐾Paid for the manufacture of a wheelchair for a dog with a disability (within the unique collection);

🐾Purchased and donated syringes, treatment drops, nappies, wound treatment sprays, bandages, medicinal ointments, antibiotics, and vaccines for 795 animals in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, and Odesa regions.

🐾Paid for the installation of towbars on evacuation vehicles.

We also evacuated 21 animals from Donetsk region: 8 puppies from Druzhkivka, 3 puppies and 9 kittens from Kramatorsk, 1 cat from Sloviansk;

🐶6 cats, 9 puppies and 13 dogs from Kharkiv/Donetsk/Zaporizhzhia region (Dobrolyubivka, Orikhiv, Kurakhove);

2 dogs from the Babynets shelter were also transported to the West (Lviv region and Chernivtsi). The animals were found families, so we helped with the transport;

🐈3 kittens, 15 puppies, 3 dogs (Petrivka, Beregove, Skhidne, Kherson);

2 kittens from Kramatorsk, 4 puppies from New York, 6 large dogs from Avdiivka, 2 dogs from Krasnohorivka, Donetsk region;

🐄1 cow from Fedorivka village, Bakhmut district, Donetsk region;

🦢2 birds from Kherson, 3 cats from Kherson, 4 puppies and 4 dogs from Kherson and Petrivka;

20 dogs from Nikopol;

🐱13 cats/kittens and 1 dog from Kharkiv region (Cossack Lopan, Bohodukhivka).

🐕13 dogs and 5 puppies from Orikhiv and Zaporizhzhia.

🚚We carried out mobile sterilisations in Kryvyi Rih, the villages of Mariivka, Verabovo, Veselyi Kut (Kirovohrad Oblast), Ordo-Vasylivka, Krynychuvate (Dnipro Oblast), and Holovanivsk (Kirovohrad Oblast), Girnyk (Donetsk region), Matviyivka, Berezenguvate, Barmashove, Partyzanske, Nova Odesa, Zolota Pidkova, Novovasylivka, Veselynove (Mykolaiv region), Chornobaivka, Stepanivka, Posad Pokrovske (Kherson region).

🐾Paid for post-neuter care services for animals in Kherson.

🐾Purchased 140 rabies vaccines for the Kherson animal sterilisation project.

We paid the second part of the funds for 2,500 chips for the sterilisation project.

🐾Bought 3 scanners for reading chips for the sterilisation project

🐾💵Financial and medical assistance:
– We helped the NGO Pride purchase veterinary medicines for the evacuated animals in the centre, namely 25 pets of 89 species of wild and domestic birds, 65 dogs, 38 puppies, and 25 kittens, located in Mykolaiv region.
– Helped the ” Without Borders” Charity Foundation with the purchase of veterinary medicines for a seriously ill dog, Lapka, who has kidney failure (Mykolaiv)
– We closed 6 applications of volunteers and, who helped with the purchase of veterinary medicines/vaccines/drops, and helped with veterinary medicines to organise a volunteer field assistance in Kherson region and helped more than 40 animals.
Purchase for evacuation and sterilisation teams:
– First aid kits for animals;
– Cages for transporting animals for 3 teams;
– Food/bowls/hay/towels / antiseptic / detergents;
– Loops for safe catching of animals;
– Oven tube;
– Guest kit for volunteers (bulletproof vest/helmet/tactical first aid kit);
– Plastic carriers / warm houses/blankets;
– Additional first aid kit for the team;
– Equipment for the veterinary car (laptop/camera/phone/router / eco-flow)
– Clippers/tubes/scanners (everything for chipping animals)

🐾 Additional requests:
– A gift from St Nicholas to Maxim and Asya, the cat
– Purchase of a first aid kit for the office
– Purchase of quarantine boxes for 16 shelters
– Extruded porridge for dogs

☕️Launched the buymeacoffee platform and are happy that donations are already coming in).

💵Received the first $100 from the donut platform.

🔅Held promotions in Vitary (Odesa), Vegano Hooligano (Odesa), Mondays Cafe (Ivano-Frankivsk), and Nitay (Uzhhorod) on Vegan Day.

We received 40 thousand euros from Eurofurence partners.

We have completed the Paw of Care campaign with the Masterzoo pet stores and visa, and the quarantine boxes are already in progress.

We launched and quickly closed the Winter Fundraiser, and now the animals will stay warm thanks to you!

We had our first charity stand-up.

We applied for a grant for the organisational development of ISAR Ednannia

We launched our online store Animalism, to save even more animals!

🐾Our winter fundraiser was supported by influencers who helped animals with us, namely Nastya Zukhvala, Sergey Afonsky, Katya Glinina, Dmitry Polishchuk, Albert Lalayan, Vesta Gunchenko, Alexander Kachura, Svetlana Nemonezhina, Sasha Shabalina, Tember, Nazva.

🐾👆More about the work of the legal department:

• • A statement to the Kovel Department of the National Police in the Volyn Region on the commission of a criminal offence under Part 3 of Article 299 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on the fact of cruelty to an animal, namely mockery, battery and violent acts that caused physical pain and suffering to a domestic dog, committed intentionally, which led to the dog’s injury and death. The animal was subjected to constant torture, and numerous scars are clear evidence of this.
  • Appeal to the Prosecutor’s Office of Volyn Oblast regarding cruelty to animals (torture of a shepherd dog) under Part 3 of Article 299 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and to conduct an internal investigation and bring to disciplinary responsibility for inaction on the part of patrol police officers of the Kovel District Police Department of the Main Department of the National Police of Ukraine in Volyn Oblast, who did not record the crime and left the animal to die.
  • The appeal of the ICO “Humane Country” regarding the commission of a criminal offence under Part 3 of Article 299 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on the fact of cruelty to animals, namely mockery, battery and violent acts that caused physical pain and suffering to a pet dog and led to death and inaction of the patrol police of the Kovel District Police Department of the Main Department of the National Police in Volyn Oblast.
  • An application to the Rozdilnyansky District Police Department of the Main Department of the National Police in Odesa Oblast regarding the cruel treatment of an animal that was tied to a chain at the time, using a heavy object to beat the dog, which led to the death of the animal, which constitutes a criminal offence under Article 299 (3) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
  • Appeal of the ICO Humane Country to the Management of the Odesa Oblast Main Department of the National Police regarding the commission of a criminal offence under Part 3 of Article 299 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine regarding the fact of cruelty to animals, namely, mockery, beatings and violent acts that led to the death of an animal.
  • An appeal to the Main Department of the National Police in Volyn Oblast to bring administrative liability for cruelty to animals under Article 89 of the Code of Administrative Offences against Oleh Pasyuk, who is starving animals.
  • An appeal was sent to the Kirovohrad Main Department of the National Police of Ukraine regarding cruelty to a pet in violation of Part 1 of Article 299 of the Criminal Code by 14-year-old 8th-grade students and a 15-year-old 9th-grade student of the Onufriyivsky Lyceum in Oleksandriysky district, Kirovohrad region.
  • An appeal was sent to the NGO Humane Country regarding the violation of the detention of the South African lioness Elina by the owner Bokov I.V., who appealed the administrative protocol under Part 1 of Article 88-1 of the Code of Administrative Offences by the Dnipro Court of Appeal and left the lioness at his home.
  • An appeal to the Cyberpolice regarding the sale and distribution of wild and exotic animals (eared owls, storm falcons, foxes, rinse raccoons, frettes, ferrets, African hedgehogs, meerkats) listed in the Red Data Book of Ukraine and the World on the Shipistik.com.ua website.
  • An appeal from the applicant Yulia Ilyenko about the destruction of swans on the lake in the Trostyanets arboretum in the Ichnianets district, Chernihiv region. It is reported that the new nursery director, Mr. Katrushenko A.I., destroyed all the swans on the conservatory’s territory.
  • Applications to the Brovary Department of the National Police in the Kyiv region regarding the cruel treatment of an animal listed in the Red Book of Ukraine under Part 1 of Article 299 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, as well as the fact of unlawful actions of a person who committed an administrative offence under Part 2, Part 3 of Article 88-1 of the Code of Administrative Offences.
  • A statement of violation of the procedure for the acquisition, sale or distribution of objects of the animal or plant world, parts 2, 3 of Article 88-1 of the Code of Administrative Offences to the Brovary Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine in Kyiv region. The bird in question is the Black Altai Balaban, listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.
  • A statement was sent to Yulia Ovchynnikova, MP, to prevent the resumption of hunting and to consider alternative measures to regulate the population of red foxes.
  • An appeal was sent by the NGO Humane Country to the Ministry of Ecology, the Minister of Agrarian Policy, and the Head of the Forest Resources Agency regarding the resumption of artificial regulation of the number of foxes and consideration of alternative measures to regulate the red fox population.
  • Statement to the Baryshivka Police Department No. 1 of the Main Department of the National Police in Kyiv Oblast regarding the cruel treatment of animals in the shelter in Podillia village, Baryshivka district, Kyiv Oblast. The person who kept the animals starved them and kept them outside, which caused them to freeze to death. Part 1 of Article 299 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is violated.
  • An information request for public information was sent to the Izyaslav city community to provide information on the date of the approved local programme for regulating the number of stray animals in the Izyaslav territorial community to implement the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Animals from Cruelty” and to implement the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24 June 2022 No. 720 “On Approval of the Procedure for Regulating the Number of Animals Not Kept by Humans but in Conditions Wholly or Partially Created by Human Activities”.

👆Court hearings:

1. Participation in a court hearing to consider a complaint about the inaction of the investigator by Article 303 of the CPC of Ukraine (Complaint was satisfied)
2. Trial under Part 11 of Art. 299 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine Krasyliv District Court (cow), the case was postponed to 26.12 at the request of the lawyer

👇Work with draft laws:

1. Proofread and prepared proposals for the draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine to Bring Them in Line with the requirements of the European Convention for the Protection of the Rights of Pets” (Ovchynnykova, Syumar, Kondratiuk).
2. Participated in the discussion of the draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine to bring them in line with the requirements of the European Convention for the Protection of Domestic Animals”.
3. Participated in the discussion of the draft Hunting Strategy
4. Familiarised with EU wildlife directives and requirements for zoos
5. Monitored draft laws on the Agrarian Policy Committee and the Environmental Policy Committee, where they are the primary executor and where they are co-executors of projects of the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy;
6. Evaluated draft laws from the list of the Committee on Ecology on amendments to the Forest Code, the Civil Protection Code, and fees for particular use of natural resources.
7. Reviewed the EU directive on the transport of animals and birds.
8. Monitored draft laws on the Committee on Agrarian Policy and the Committee on Environmental Policy, where they are the primary executors and co-executors of projects of the Ministry of Environment and Agrarian Policy.
9. Prepared an extract of individual provisions from our table of proposed law amendments.
10. Monitored the draft laws of the Committee on Agrarian Policy and the Committee on Environmental Policy, where they are the primary executor and where they are co-executors, projects of the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy;
11. Vetted the legal guidelines of the UAnimals website; wrote corrections, comments and suggestions to the legal part of the website.
12. Reviewed new regulations and limits for game animals from the Ministry of Environment
13. Draft law assessed by the Committee on Ecology on fur production, protection of aquatic bioresources, and European standards for industrial modernisation.
14. Reviewed new regulations and limits for game animals from the Ministry of Environment.
15. Reviewed international experience on wildlife issues.
16. Analysis of the Austrian legislation on wildlife management (Tierschutzgesetz).
17. Analysis of Swiss legislation, information websites of Swiss animal protection organisations
18. Analysis of German legislation on protecting wild animals, their use and ownership.
19. Analysis of the Italian legislation on wildlife protection, search for the practice of animal protection organisations.
20. Monitoring of draft laws on the Committee on Agrarian Policy, and the Committee on Environmental Policy, where they are the primary executor and where they are co-executors, projects of the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy;
21. EU requirements for member states on wildlife, research on EU directives.
22. Prepared for the broadcast, wrote a document – report, references to laws, research of local authorities’ decisions for the broadcast, EU practices on stray animals.
23. Drafted annexes to the table of amendments: Regulations on the Fauna Protection Commission; Procedure for applying sanctions by the Fauna Protection Commission.
24. Worked on the issue of dogs in shops, petrol stations, and public places.
25. Prepared for an online interview with a journalist from Suspilne Chernivtsi.
26. Interview with Suspilne Chernivtsi.
27. Researched sources for the project on the registration and identification of pets.
28. Monitored draft laws on the Committee on Agrarian Policy and the Committee on Environmental Policy, where they are the primary executor and co-executors of projects of the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
29. Evaluation of the VRU Ecology Committee’s projects on hunting and hunting dogs, wind farms, the use of animals in entertainment, the treatment of animals in captivity, and the protection of marine mammals
30. Evaluated the projects of the Verkhovna Rada Ecology Committee on the Emerald Network, state environmental control, international obligations to protect animals from cruelty, and protecting and preserving precious areas of natural reservoirs and watercourses.
31. Prepared for a live broadcast on Instagram on the issue of “what to do if you witness cruelty” – prepared answers to questions on the broadcast topic.
32. Participated in a live broadcast on Instagram about animal rights.
33. Monitoring of draft laws on the Committee on Agrarian Policy, the Committee on Environmental Policy, where they are the primary executor and where they are co-executors, projects of the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy;

🔅🐾And the work of our international department:

💫To draw attention to Russia’s environmental crimes in Ukraine, the International Department organised several actions abroad. Thus, tears appeared on animal statues in four European cities. And in London, they were looking for a lost diaper that may have disappeared forever due to the actions of the Russians.

💫We took part in a conference in Lviv organised by the Ukrainian Red Cross – “Environmental Protection through the Prism of International Humanitarian Law”. We told the audience that international humanitarian law does not contain any rules for protecting animals during armed conflicts. We also cited cases of evacuation flights by the UAnimals team that could serve as precedents for changes in IHL. It will help protect animals not only in Ukraine but also around the world.

🐾Together with our community, we:

1. Made 9 feed distributions, more than a tonne of feed that animals in the frontline areas received.
2. We distributed posters about sterilisation. Now, more than 200 posters across Ukraine emphasise the importance of stopping chaotic breeding.
3. We cleaned shelters in Ukraine:

The 1st wave – 5 regions of Ukraine and 25+ people cleaning;

The 2nd wave – 5 shelters, regions of Ukraine and 20 super people cleaning.

1. We held our first online conversation with community volunteers and received excellent feedback on our activities and plans for the future

🐾And we also collectively shared posts about the meeting, telling how to help animals during the winter.

So, in November, there were 1289 volunteers in the UAnimals Community: 1,122 in Ukraine and 167 abroad.

We are grateful to every one of them for helping animals!