How Kyiv zoo is keeping its animals warm during the war

0 views
0%

How Kyiv zoo is keeping its animals warm during the war

Kyiv residents have been battling a particularly harsh winter with limited access to electricity as Russia targets energy facilities supplying the city. At the zoo, the director, Kyrylo Trantin, said he had studied books about how zoos in Berlin and Soviet Leningrad tried to survive the second world war, when most of their animals perished. ‘We use the same techniques as these zoos did. Already in summer we started preparations for the coming winter season,’ he said

Date: February 19, 2026