Fundraiser for Veterinary Care for Animals from Frontline Areas

Many towns and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine have been emptied due to the war. Local residents have evacuated, leaving animals alone — often sick, injured, and exhausted. People who have not yet left feed cats and dogs and try to treat them, but they lack the strength and resources to do so.

That is why, together with the Accessible Sterilization project, we travel to frontline settlements every month. For 4 days, a team of veterinarians works from morning to night: vaccinating, spaying/neutering, providing treatment, and treating for parasites in difficult conditions. Each trip is intense and exhausting for the team.

During one mission, we help about 350 animals. Our team has already worked in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

We want to continue our Vet Missions to save animals. But this requires money for surgeries, medicines, vaccines, consumables, and fuel. We have now launched a fundraiser for our next veterinary mission. We need to raise UAH 500,000 (≈$12,121) as soon as possible.

Here are just a few rescue stories from our past trips. To have more of them, we ask for your support in raising funds!

Lusia, a seven-year-old spaniel, lived her whole life in Dobropillia. Her human hardly took care of her, kicking her out onto the street, where Lusia gave birth to puppies more than once. Due to the lack of care, tumors appeared in her mammary glands, but no one treated the animal.

In February 2025, during our Vet Mission, we met a confused and thin Lusia — she was wandering the streets. We took her in, performed surgery, and spayed her.

Lusia became one of 354 animals our veterinarians helped at that time. A few days later, she found a new family in the Lviv region. Now she has a home, love, and care.

In the spring of 2024, our UAnimals team arrived with a Vet Mission to Bilozerske in the Donetsk region. There, they brought a dog with mastitis, an inflammation and severe infection of the mammary glands. Her condition was so serious that we had to take the animal to Pokrovsk. After examination, veterinarian Nataliia performed surgery, the dog recovered, and eventually the animal found her human!

We also rescued a dog named Bahira in the Zaporizhzhia region. She had been on a chain for a long time, and the metal collar had literally cut into her neck. She was in terrible pain. Her former people no longer wanted her. Our veterinarians treated and stitched up the deep wound, after which Bahira went to stay temporarily with volunteer Nataliia from Zaporizhzhia.

We want more animals to have a chance at a better life, free from diseases and suffering. That is why we want to continue helping as much as we can.

Previously, our trips were made possible thanks to the Paw of Care campaign by MasterZoo pet store chain. From each “paw” purchased, UAH 20 (≈$0.48) went to animal rescue. But now there is a pause between campaigns, and we have to find resources on our own so that our missions do not stop.

So we ask for your help. Please join us with a donation of any amount.