Ternopil animal volunteers from the Noah's Ark NGO, Olena and Ivan, who evacuated dogs after the Russian shelling of the village of Velyka Vilshanytsia in the Lviv region on March 9, took the German shepherd Balthazar to their family.
His owners, as well as Elsa's dogs, whose photo in the ruins of the house went viral, were killed in the missile attack, according to the public organization UAnimals on Facebook.
Animal rights activists said that Lviv volunteers took Elsa for treatment and were able to collect enough money for help. The animal has a wounded neck and jaw, an injured paw and bleeding in the eyes. However, there were those willing to take the dog to their family after treatment.
The authors added that people who had two sheepdogs also died in another house next door. One of the dogs is also currently undergoing treatment.
The report said that Elena and Ivan were supposed to take Balthazar to the Kyiv region, where they would take care of him and find a new family.
"They say that we don't choose animals, but they choose us. Balthazar came to us and we immediately felt each other. That's why we decided that he should stay in our family," Olena said.
"We were moved to tears by this news," animal rights activists emphasized.
They added that the second shepherd was also offered medication and they are in contact with the volunteers who are taking care of her.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Kherson, the police rescued a dog that was tied to a road in the middle of the ruins near a huge funnel from a Russian missile.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, animal volunteer Anastasia Tykha, whose photo during the evacuation from the destroyed Irpen went viral all over the world, asked Ukrainians for help for an animal shelter.
