Lady Freethinker and Dobri Vchynky Razom partnered together to serve the pets of Ukraine affected by war Lady Freethinker and Dobri Vchynky Razom worked together to build 100 doghouses to help stray ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers at the Rendez-vous with Animals shelter in eastern Germany named this puppy Panda for the distinctive brown circles around ...

KYIV — Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv’s top diplomat made a very personal and little-known policy decision: He encouraged Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry staff to bring their dogs ...

Adopting dogs abandoned on the battlefields has become a national duty in Ukraine. Ukraine bureau chief Siobhán O’Grady, bureau researcher Kostiantyn Khudov and photographer Serhiy Morgunov met ...

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 ...

KYIV, Ukraine — For two days last month, a vision of canine paradise emerged in the heart of a city regularly pounded by Russian drones and missiles. Under sunny skies, thousands of dogs of all sizes ...

The human cost of the war in Ukraine has been well documented. But Russia’s invasion is also affecting the country’s pets in surprising ways. In a study published in December, in the journal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Lady Freethinker founder Nina Thompson, the mission is deeply personal. "I'm an animal person. I always have been," Thompson ...

A new effort is helping ensure that Ukraine's vulnerable stray canines aren't left out in the cold. Through a partnership between Lady Freethinker and Ukrainian humanitarian aid nonprofit Dobri ...