Many of those refugees have an added challenge: taking their beloved pets with them.
According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), a number of key countries bordering Ukraine — and other countries in Europe — have made it easier for Ukrainian families to enter with their pets, no doubt aware that some of those refugees would rather stay behind in danger than abandon their cats and dogs to a likely death. Some of those countries’ policy steps include relaxing health records often required for animals taken across national borders.
A woman holds Ukrainian passports and a pet as she crosses the border in Vysne Nemecke, Slovakia, on Friday. (Darko Vojinovic/AP)
“The devastation caused by some of these rocket attacks, that open environment full of glass, concrete and metal is dangerous to people but also to animals,” James Sawyer, IFAW’s United Kingdom director, told BBC News.
“Local supplies are running out, one of the two animal shelters we support has been damaged by shells, losing one of the animals,” he said.
Photos of refugees show many of them with cat carriers or simply holding their cats and dogs in their arms. One photo of the train station in Przemysl, Poland, shows a woman holding her pet rabbit while stepping off a train from Ukraine.
A woman carries a pet rabbit as she exits a train from Kyiv in Przemysl, Poland, on Feb. 23. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)
Those pets require food, shelter and health care.
In Przemysl, a town near the Ukrainian border, an animal shelter has been frantically working to save as many sick and wounded Ukrainian pets as it can. According to the Daily Mail, which visited the shelter, the group has rescued “more than 100 dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters and even a chameleon.”
Radek comforts a wounded dog evacuated from Ukraine at the Ada Foundation animal clinic in Przemysl, Poland, on Sunday. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)
“Last weekend I had a call from a guy who was in Ukraine, and he said he was living on his own but had a dog he wanted us to look after because he was going to fight the Russians,” Konrad Kuzminski, a staffer at the shelter, told the Daily Mail.
Cats inside cages in quarantine after being evacuated from Ukraine at the Ada Foundation animal clinic on Sunday. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)
“We arranged to meet just over the border, and he was in tears as he handed his dog over to me, but I said we would look after him and he could collect him when all this was over,” Kuzminski said.
Ukrainians fleeing Russian bombs are also taking their pets to bomb shelters within Ukraine, and photos show families huddling in subway stations with their pets.
Kyryl, 9, from Kyiv arrives with his dog, Hugo, at the Hungarian border town of Zahony on March 2. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
A refugee holds her cat in Siret, Romania, at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, on Saturday. (Andreea Alexandru/AP)
A woman carries her cat as evacuees cross a destroyed bridge in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on Monday. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian refugee holds her cat as she and others arrive by bus at the Greek-Bulgarian border on Monday. (Sakis Mitrollidis /AFP via Getty Images)
A puppy peers from a pet carrier in Siret, Romania, on Feb. 27. (Andreea Alexandru/AP)
An emergency worker warms the dog of a displaced Ukrainian at the border in Siret, Romania, on March 2. (Andrei Pungovschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
People fleeing Ukraine sit with their dogs on a train from Zahony, Hungary, to Budapest on Sunday. (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)
A student holds his cat after arriving at the airport in Chennai, India, on Friday after being evacuated from Ukraine. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images)
People with their pets flee from Irpin, Ukraine, on Monday. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A woman comforts her child as a dog looks on at a refugee shelter in Beregsurany, Hungary, on Monday. (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)
Julia Gereasumenko and her pets, Garfield the cat and Yoda the dog, take shelter in a Kyiv subway station on March 2. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Olga Okhrimenko holds her dog, Knolly, in a ballroom converted into a makeshift refugee shelter in Suceava, Romania, on Friday. (Andreea Alexandru/AP)
A man and his dog cross a river on a blown-up bridge in Irpin, Ukraine, on March 1. (Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)
A refugee and her dog in a ballroom converted into a refugee shelter in Suceava, Romania, on Friday. (Andreea Alexandru/AP)
People flee Irpin, Ukraine, on Sunday. (Oleksandr Ratushniak/AP)
A child with a cat in a school basement on the outskirts of Kyiv on Sunday. (Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters)
A woman holds her dog as she waits outside a train station in Lviv, Ukraine, on Friday. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
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