How animals caught in a war zone are rescued. Photo report

Since the end of February, more than 3.7 million people have left the conflict zone in Ukraine.How people transport their pets and how they help other animals - in the RBC photo galleryPhoto: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS

A homeless cat in the territory of the village of Trekhizbenka, which came under the control of the LPR (Lugansk People's Republic)

Photo: Vadim Ghirda / AP

A woman carries her dog in her arms along a destroyed bridge during the evacuation from Irpin, Kyiv region, March 5

Photo: Clement Rossignol / REUTERS

Several wild animals were taken out of a shelter near Kyiv on March 9.

Through Poland, they were delivered to other countries: two lions were sent to Belgium (in the photo - the delivery of a lion to a Belgian aid center), several more animals were sent to Spain. They previously ended up in a Kyiv shelter after being rescued from difficult life situations: for example, one lion was kept “in a small cage in a shopping center”, and the other served as entertainment for nightclub guests

Photo: Valery Melnikov / RIA Novosti

A woman with a child walks along the road near Stanitsa Luganskaya, which came under the control of the LPR, on February 26

Photo: Sergey Grits / AP

A woman with a cat at the Ukrainian checkpoint Palanca, located on the border with Moldova, March 11.
According to the UNHCR, as of March 25, 3.8 million people left Ukraine

Photo: Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS Volunteer at the PIF animal shelter in Donetsk, DPR. There are about 800 stray dogs in the shelter,

Doctors and volunteers with dogs and cats evacuated from Ukraine in the Polish city of Przemysl, March 8

Photo: Nikolai Trishin / TASS

Evacuation of citizens of the DPR on buses to RUSSIA, February 19

Photo: Stoyan Nenov / AP A family from the city of Nikolaev, Ukraine, is evacuated with five dogs,March 11 Photo: Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS

A homeless dog in the city of Volnovakha, which came under the control of the DPR, on March 14

Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters 80 animals from the Kyiv Zoo were brought to the Polish city of Poznan. They had to spend six days on the road,

In the photo: a woman is evacuated from Mariupol to the territory of the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic), March 24

Photo: hghope.ru

For the shelters of the DPR and LPR, humanitarian aid was collected by the International Charitable Foundation “Giving Hope”, but there were difficulties in transferring it. The goods are located at the bases of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the DPR and LPR, Vladimir Burmatov, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on ecology, explained to RBC: independent states, and in them the transfer of such assistance is carried out exclusively at the level of state bodies. According to him, on March 24, about 20 tons of humanitarian cargo were waiting in Moscow for their turn, and about 5 tons more in the Rostov region.

Photo: priyut_schastlivy_vmeste / VK

In the photo: “Happy Together” shelter, Lugansk.

Photo: Thomas Peter / Reuters In the photo: a stray dog ​​on the streets of Kyiv, March 21.

  Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

A couple from Mariupol with their cat before handing it over to the caretakers of a shelter in Lvov on March 7. From there, the animals plan to be evacuated to Latvia.