• 2 days ago
Five lions traumatised by war in Ukraine settle in to their 'forever home' at UK sanctuary

The animals were rescued by the Wild Animals Rescue Centre, run by Natalia Popova, a Ukrainian woman who has saved hundreds of abandoned pets and zoo animals.

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00:00Pretty much all the lions were on the front line and obviously their original owners evacuated
00:17and they were left there.
00:19And they were discovered, some by people and some by the army and obviously the team that
00:22were working with IFAW and Wild Animal Rescue to get these lions out, they were taken to
00:27a temporary facility which was a converted horse stables just outside of Kyiv.
00:31Now the problem with that area is that that was the direct flight path for drones from
00:36Russia to Kyiv.
00:38So it was about getting the lions out as quickly as possible and as safe as possible as well.
00:48My favourite animal in the whole world is Yuna the lioness.
00:58Now she was a lioness that we rescued from Ukraine and she means the absolute world to
01:02me.
01:03Obviously when she was originally rescued she could barely walk, she was suffering from
01:06shell shock and concussion.
01:08She was so severely bad that they were actually going to euthanise her but we managed to step
01:12in and get her out of the war zone and she's just come on leaps and bounds since being
01:16here at the sanctuary and we're just so happy with her progress.

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