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 ...

Before Russia invaded in 2022, Ukraine was already grappling with a high stray animal population. When 6.8 million people were forced to leave the country, over one million pets were left behind, and ...

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, ...

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 ...

With 12 million Ukrainians having fled their country, nearly one million stray dogs and cats wander the streets of Ukraine’s war-torn towns and villages. Previous missions have delivered 40 tons of ...

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.

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 ...

Dogs near Ukraine’s front lines are becoming more wolf-like as war filters survival traits, revealing rapid natural selection in action.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. After the dam in southern Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka was blown up on Tuesday, entire neighborhoods of Kherson were left underwater, ...