Russia’s full-scale invasion has torn through Ukraine’s cities and fields, and it has also rewritten the lives of the country’s dogs. Once family pets, village guardians or anonymous strays, they now ...

“From the beginning of the war, we saw a very sad situation with pets in Ukraine,” said Mariia Martsiv, who was the paper’s ...

The war in Ukraine has not only changed people. A study has been published showing that dogs surviving closer to the front ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One night in late November, there was a loud explosion. The sky flashed white. Yura didn’t know what the sound was. She only knew ...

Just over 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Kyiv, the Gostomel animal shelter in Hostomel, Kyiv Oblast is trying to keep more ...

Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure are causing unprecedented hardship to some of Ukraine's most vulnerable creatures amid the harshest winter since the 2022 invasion. Animal welfare ...

As heartbreaking news continues to come out of Ukraine, so do stories of people finding ways to help provide hope to those who need it most. One such story from the latter category shows that even the ...

A dog shelter in Ukraine's southern city of Zaporizhzhia was damaged following a Russian strike on Friday, according to local ...

CHUBYNS'KE, Kyiv Oblast — Natalia Popova has found a new purpose in life: Rescuing wild animals and pets from the devastation wrought by the war in Ukraine. “They are my life,” says the 50-year-old, ...

KHERSON, Ukraine — The rescue volunteer holds out his hand, but the dog, stranded on a floating island of debris in a southern Ukrainian city inundated by flooding, is too traumatized to approach.