A Ukrainian man is garnering global praise after he drove a van full of marsupials out of a shelled zoo to safety — but they weren’t the only animals to be rescued from this particular facility in recent weeks.
The Feldman Ecopark in the hard-hit city of Kharkiv is working to evacuate all of its animals after weeks of deadly attacks by Russian forces. It’s been posting updates to its Facebook page in Ukrainian and English and shared an uplifting one on Saturday: A group of kangaroos taken out of the park two days earlier had finally made it to safety.
“This is very nice, because their enclosures, unfortunately, were repeatedly shelled,” park officials wrote. “We believe that now they will be fine!”
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