At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Iryna lived in Kharkiv with her children and husband.

“There was a rumble on the ground. I understood that it was not fireworks.”

Iryna was the head of the animal shelter.

“The shelter remained under occupation. There were fights there. Wolf, foxes, predatory birds, dogs, moles - 60 animals. It is impossible to evacuate. One worker was there for a month and a half. Fortunately, all the animals survived,” says Iryna, a resident of Kharkiv.

On March 2, Iryna and her family managed to get on the evacuation train, even though the Kharkiv railway station came under fire that day.

Currently, Iryna is the head of a large center for homeless animals in Kyiv, helping war animals to adapt in Europe.