Researchers from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, working with colleagues from Austria and Poland, analyzed data on 763 dogs across three zones: areas directly near the eastern front line, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure are causing unprecedented hardship to some of Ukraine's most vulnerable creatures amid the harshest winter since the 2022 invasion. Animal welfare ...

Ukraine faces a rising rabies threat as war disrupts prevention efforts, with human bites soaring from 780 in 2021 to 2,507 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.