Kyiv Animal Rescue Group has evacuated 300 cats and dogs from eastern Ukraine
It is difficult to accommodate animals because shelters are overcrowded
It is difficult to accommodate animals because shelters are overcrowded
As Ukraine prepared to celebrate its independence day even while its military forces battled a monthslong Russian invasion, government officials assembled a grandiose, yet gruesome, display on Khreshchatyk, the main street of Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv.
I stood on Kyiv’s main boulevard, Khreshchatyk, one year ago, on Aug. 24, 2021, celebrating along with thousands of Ukrainians who were watching the Independence Day parade.