Amid the exodus of more than 2.5 million refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine are the pets people could not leave behind: birds, rabbits, hamsters, cats and dogs.
A refugee who fled Ukraine comforts her dog as they sit in a ballroom converted into a makeshift refugee shelter at a hotel, in Suceava, Romania, March 4, 2022.Hundreds of thousands are displaced inside Ukraine as well, after fleeing assaults on their hometowns. An 84-year-old woman who gave only her first name, Antonina, sat in a wheelchair at a triage point in Kyiv, holding a miniature poodle and clutching the leashes of her 11 other little dogs after being evacuated from the town of Irpin.
Antonina, 84, sits in a wheelchair after being evacuated along with her twelve dogs from Irpin, at a triage point in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 11, 2022.Victoria Trofimenko said she felt an obligation to keep not only her family but her pets safe. The 42-year-old had originally never planned to leave Kyiv, she told The Associated Press by Zoom days after the war started.
But as the missiles and explosives rained down she thought about her duty to protect her 18-year-old daughter, 69-year-old mother - and her dog, Akira, and cat, Galileo. She bought train tickets to head west, eventually ending up in Prague. She said she first arrived in Hungary, though, and was grateful to have Akira by her side for protection.
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