Ukraine Updates
March 10, 2022
Since just days after the war in Ukraine started in February 2022, PETA Germany and its partners have been risking it all to save animals in need. From flooding to missile strikes, Global Compassion Fund–backed teams have risked it all to help Ukraine’s animals. Meet some of the beautiful souls who now have a second chance at life because of your support.
Yesterday, we reported that a team from PETA Germany had set off to bring nearly 90 more cats and dogs to safety. They’ve since returned to Poland from Ukraine—with more than 100 animals in tow, all of whom are now safe and being cared for in a shelter. This means that to date, PETA Germany has helped rescue more than 300 companion animals from Ukraine.
It’s not getting easier, but the group is working around the clock to be there for the humans and other animals who desperately need them. After another 24-hour journey, the rescue team is tired but determined. They have been working with a network of amazing Ukrainian people, performing miracles to bring animals to safety. Here are some of the humans and other animals they helped yesterday:
The team met up with local activists and the more than 100 cats and dogs who had been brought on a dangerous days-long journey from a shelter in Kyiv, helping to deliver them all safely across the border in Poland.
PETA Germany also transported Nika; her cat companion, Misty; and 22 other cats who are all now safe and receiving lots of love and attention at a shelter in Poland. Misty, who was feeling ill last night, is being seen by a veterinarian today.
And this is Ludmilla, the human pictured below, who is keeping a sweet deaf and blind dog warm under her jacket. She found the animal, whom she calls “Little Hedgehog,” tied to a lamppost and brought him along with the other animals when she fled Kyiv.
And just as PETA Germany was about to leave, this sweet, abandoned fellow was delivered to the team by caring locals. He, too, is now at the shelter with his new dog and human friends. Once he’s been microchipped, sterilized, and vaccinated, he—like all the others—will be ready to be adopted into a permanent home far away from war.
And below is Lena—she fled Kyiv with her cat companion, Dracula, after a missile hit her neighbor’s house. It took them 20 hours to travel from Kyiv to Lviv, where she was picked up by PETA Germany’s team. She is one of hundreds of thousands of people leaving the country together with their beloved animals.
Meanwhile, PETA U.K. is urgently compelling its local officials to ease border restrictions, to join the many other countries in Europe and beyond that are providing humans and other animals, like Lena and Dracula, with refuge.
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