Ukraine’s prized zoo animals face starving to death amid Mad Vlad’s cowardly shelling.Defiant carers who have been living full-time with the traumatised beasts at Kyiv zoo are now running dangerously low on feed for its 4,000 beasts from 200 species.
They have also been burning through medicine and anti-depressants to try and keep the animals calm as nearby bombs rattle their enclosures.
The zoo’s desperate director Kyrylo Trantin said: “Before the war we stockpiled two weeks’ worth of food for the animals.“We are now in the second week of war and today we went to our storehouse and got out three tonnes of food.
That will last another week.“After that we will see.I already have people running around the city looking for fresh foodstuffs in supermarkets.
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