Caring for Ukraine’s abandoned horses

war's impact can even be measured in ukraine's stables and how many these horses all evacuees pulled from areas of active fighting many still terrified i can tell you that they came from key region sumsca region nipra region odessa how many horses have you had now 32 but for all this time we changed more than 100 horses 100 horses all coming out of war yes and it's not a finish larissa penco is only temporarily caring for these animals she doesn't know their names or who owns them only that strangers found them and got them out they'll now all be moved out of country by volunteers oh boy yeah he's sick now yeah and in this table in which he lived because of war was nothing to eat no personal so he's very skinny yes he's very skinny on arrival he could barely walk oh so the vet is giving medicine in those first hours there was an urgent need to add fluids intravenously spray antibiotics on burns and cuts on horses which fled fire and attacks and every week more come as we're talking to larissa yacia arrives with apples for horses and stories to tell about some of them turns out she knows many well she rides competitively these are show horses she tells us she saw the horses had been moved on an instagram page for rescues that's when she decided to come and see them he's able to tell rescuers their names and that they come from the hard-hit donetsk region it's an incredible reunion for her but one that will be short-lived they must leave the country for safety and she cannot foreign this truck from sweden will take them out to welfare groups abroad it's also bringing needed food in too they have donations buy the hay buy this and the food and bring to us to keep the horses alive yes yes because without this i don't know what we will do larissa will say goodbye to waiting for the next evacuees to suddenly show up some injured in attacks how do you feel about that with the horses i want to cry because it's difficult to imagine what they have field and how they are oh another reminder that wars toll stretches wide but so too does love and the desire to help david common cbc news voya bartotivska ukraine

Channel: CBC News: The National

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Id: u726SQQYo28

Length: 4min 6sec (246 seconds)

Published: Thu May 05 2022