A modern-day Ark of animals has escaped into Poland after a six-day odyssey across war-torn Ukraine which saw their evacuation convoy come under fire from Russia artillery and forced to flee Vladimir Putin's tanks. The animals, from a rescue shelter near Kyiv airport, had come under attack from Russian shelling when the director made the decision to evacuate them.Saying they would either die from ‘bombs or starvation’, Natalia Popova contacted a zoo in the Polish city of Poznan before making the difficult decision about which of her 80 animals had the best chance of surviving the journey.
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