A Ukrainian cat was reunited with its human family after spending more than two weeks and travelling hundreds of kilometers as a homeless refugee, the Segodnya newspaper reported on Saturday.
Lipuchka (Ukrainian: Velcro or Sticky), a white mixed breed, went missing in the main train station of the western city Lviv in mid-March, after travelling there with her family on an evacuation train from Kharkiv.
Ukraine’s second largest-city, Kharkiv has been under almost continuous Russian Federation air and artillery bombardment since the beginning of March. City authorities have estimated at least 1,000 civilian homes and businesses have been destroyed, and at least 250 local residents killed.
Ukrainian officials have said RF forces appear to be targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in an attempt to browbeat Ukrainians into surrendering. RF propaganda outlets deny that – a claim massively contradicted by one-the-scene images and eyewitness accounts.
According to the Segodnya report, Lipuchka’s fortunes took a turn for the better when Halina Yanka, a war volunteer and owner of seven cats of her own, found Lipuchka hiding cold and hungry under a car parked on a Lviv street. Yanka fed Lipuchka and placed placed the cat’s photograph in social media.
Two days later Kharkiv former resident, identified in the report as Iryna, saw Lipuchka’s photograph.
Iryna and her family had moved on to temporary housing in the Zhytomyr region so, the article said, Iryna used a combination of local trains and hitchhike rides make a 700 km round trip to return to Lviv, collect Lipuchka, and take her to her new home.
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