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Polish Volunteers Are Risking Their Lives to Save Abandoned Pets in Ukraine
Animal advocates are driving into Ukraine to rescue stranded pets and sometimes their owners, often at great risk to their own safety.
WARSAW, Poland – After Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, medical student Hamza Chowdhry spent three sleepless nights in Kyiv before he decided to flee the city. The 30-year-old hopped in his car with packed bags, canisters full of extra fuel, and his cat, and drove west towards Poland. Along the way, he saw Ukrainian tanks speeding down highways, and heard multiple explosions that made the already clogged traffic worse as people panicked and tried to circumvent each other.
It took Chowdhry upwards of 14 hours to make it to Lutsk, a city in northwestern Ukraine, where he stayed for over a week at a family-run hotel while he tried to figure out how to get out of the country. It wasn’t until a convoy of volunteers tasked with saving Ukrainian animals showed up that Chowdhry was able to find his way into Poland.
“They were volunteers coming from Poland all the way to Ukraine to pick up animals,” Chowdhry said. “They were saving humans too.”
It’s a scene that’s been playing out regularly ever since the first animal rescue mission took place on Feb. 26, reported Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, as a mix of animal advocacy groups and grassroots volunteers work nonstop to collect hundreds of animals from Ukraine and bring them to safety. Janusz Żwański, a Polish postal worker who delivers antibiotics and helmets to Ukraine during his off days, sometimes collects Ukrainian cats on his way back to Poland.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpw9v/ukraine-poland-pets
WARSAW, Poland – After Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, medical student Hamza Chowdhry spent three sleepless nights in Kyiv before he decided to flee the city. The 30-year-old hopped in his car with packed bags, canisters full of extra fuel, and his cat, and drove west towards Poland. Along the way, he saw Ukrainian tanks speeding down highways, and heard multiple explosions that made the already clogged traffic worse as people panicked and tried to circumvent each other.
It took Chowdhry upwards of 14 hours to make it to Lutsk, a city in northwestern Ukraine, where he stayed for over a week at a family-run hotel while he tried to figure out how to get out of the country. It wasn’t until a convoy of volunteers tasked with saving Ukrainian animals showed up that Chowdhry was able to find his way into Poland.
“They were volunteers coming from Poland all the way to Ukraine to pick up animals,” Chowdhry said. “They were saving humans too.”
It’s a scene that’s been playing out regularly ever since the first animal rescue mission took place on Feb. 26, reported Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, as a mix of animal advocacy groups and grassroots volunteers work nonstop to collect hundreds of animals from Ukraine and bring them to safety. Janusz Żwański, a Polish postal worker who delivers antibiotics and helmets to Ukraine during his off days, sometimes collects Ukrainian cats on his way back to Poland.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpw9v/ukraine-poland-pets
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