Kiev, February 27, 2022 – Ukrainian warit is also an emergency for the animals. Gives Kiev comes the desperate appeal of Natalia Mazur, director of the municipal shelter and veterinary clinics. “We need help for nutrition and medicines“, explains the doctor via WhatsApp. The emergency, she clarifies, concerns more than 500 dogs and 77 cats. Of course, internal adoptions are blocked. The efforts are maximum, to feed the animals once a day, take care of them and take care of them. But the associations are exhausted.
The Kiev animal shelter
The appeal was picked up by Oipa International, the international organization for the protection of animals which will send aid to Ukraine, in particular to the shelter in Kiev. “If you can, adopt an animal“, the words of Natalya Mazur.
Photos from the war show the people on the run with cats and dogs. Those with pets can find shelter in the subways where it is allowed to wear them, as long as they wear a muzzle. Many countries, from Poland to Romania, have opened their borders to refugees and allow them to enter even if the animals have no documentation. This is also the request that Oipa and Lav address to the Minister of Health. Gianluca Felicettipresident of the Anti-Vivisection League, wrote on Twitter: “We ask a Roberto Speranza ok for dogs and cats entrance without a European passport following refugees, in derogation provided for in European Regulation 576/2013. Maintaining affection is right and fundamental “.