You may have heard about Iran supplying Russia with kamikaze drones. They are drones flown remotely containing high explosives and they are being flown into apartment blocks in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. People are asleep inside the apartments or going about their business and …
NEWS AND COMMENT-KHARKIV, UKRAINE: The back story to this news item is the war in Ukraine and we know that Kharkiv has been attacked on numerous occasions by Putin’s forces causing death and destruction to civilians in their apartments. Set against that background we have …
It was only a matter of time before somebody on social media made a video like this in which a Russian blue cat becomes riled when told about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Clearly, they are a die-hard Russian. This Russian Blue is a Putin follower! …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky, is seen presenting an award to a feisty little Jack Russell terrier, Patron, a mine-sniffer, at an award ceremony in which the attendees are seen smiling broadly. Animals tend to do that to you. Animals make you smile …
Pen Farthing is now in Ukraine feeding the animals. There is no keeping him down. You may remember him as the man who founded and ran an animal rescue centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. He managed to evacuate around 200 of his rescued animals from Kabul …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: In essence this is about the British government being very, very cautious about rescued dogs from Ukraine bringing into the country diseases, particularly rabies. However, it appears to be a mix-up and what they’ve done has caused great distress. A group of …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This story is a terrible indictment of the state of play in the UK on the issue of dog theft. Brandy is an eight-month-old dachshund who belongs to a Ukrainian family living in Lviv. They gave up Brandy to a UK friend, …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I am pleased to report that Poland supplied enough food and essentials to the Shelter Friend animal shelter near Dnipro, to keep them going for a couple of months. The owner and founder of the shelter, Maryna Bolokhovets, who said that she …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UKRAINE: The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues as the war grinds on into a war of attrition although recently Putin has realised that he can’t win it and therefore is scaling back. But for the last two weeks at least, the Russian army …
