BORODIANKA, Ukraine : Eleven-year-old Veronika Krasevych crouched down in the rubble near the ruins of her home in northern Ukraine, holding out a sachet of food to two ragged cats at her feet.Almost a year earlier, Russian shells had rained down on her family's ninth-floor apartment in the town of Borodi
BORODIANKA, Ukraine : Eleven-year-old Veronika Krasevych crouched down in the rubble near the ruins of her home in northern Ukraine, holding out a sachet of food to two ragged cats at her feet.
And so started Veronika's mission to look after the pets who, just like her, had lost their homes in the chaos of war. She eventually did find Masik, but he had gone feral."We wanted to take him home but it was not possible any longer ... he did not want to come with us." The conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people, forced millions to flee and reduced whole towns to rubble has also had a deep impact on the pets and animals left behind in the wreckage, said Veronika's mother Oksana.Above her head, the exposed walls of the family's flat were still visible, as were some of Veronika's possessions that had tumbled down to the fifth floor. Russia denies intentionally targeting civilians.
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