after months in the middle of a battlefield, these
horses crossed to safety Wednesday near the front line
in heart, Kiev will join other survivors of war in a
safe haven in Western Ukraine through more than six
months of chaos, Ukraine's horse owners faced gut
wrenching decisions, many havin no choice but to
abandon their animals and hope they'd be rescued. I
know drivers, I know who needs help. I know how much
help became deliver help that's still being organized
on a near daily basis by Taya's Dot Marchenko, the se
appointed equestrian 911 operat I've just got a
message. This cry for help is coming from a horse owner
in Russian occupied here. Some caught in the crossfire.
There's no way for her to help him if he sent the car
with a trailer to take horses from Russian area. Our
car will not get out. Never. But even before this wee
before, Ukraine's lightning liberation of the Kharkiv
region, she managed to lead daring rescues to get some
horses from Russian occupied areas out of harm's way
and people were working with the two horses the whole
night and part of the day And our trailer was hidden
into the forest and it was bombing it was just just
five km from the front line and we took those horses
trapped in battle scarred Kharkiv. These 17
thoroughbreds were unreachable. Until now they need
medical care, food shelter. But Russia heavily land
mined this area are their horses that are suffering
that are dying right now. Yes, of course you have many
cases when it's too late when people just waiting,
waiting and waiting and then after it's too late, they
ask us for help. You need a special transportati
It's not get a dog that you just just just put in the
car and take for yourself in the suburb of er pine
seized by Russia. On the first day of the war, Taya
introduces us to Evan Mazunov. He owns these stables
and an equestrian training ground Amazon off shows us
video he took on 24 February that day. His land bec
the front line of a war zone. He housed at the time 90
horses. 12 days later, he realized that he and his
family needed to flee the property, leaving behind th
horses. It was like an apocalypse. In a movie, he says
15 horses were killed, some from explosions with
shrapnel, some from a direct hit and some from
dehydration because there was no water. The ones that
survived, miraculously, he says managed to jump over a
fence and lead themselves to water. Mazunov wanted to
introduce us to rodeo. The old horse he considers a
hero horses couldn't stay in the field near the water
shells were falling all around them. It was a miracle.
This one stallion rodeo, gathered the entire herd and
brought them home. He says the horse understood that it
was too dangerous to stay there. What did you see when
you came back I don't know if I can talk about that
says, but one of the survivors just gave birth. She
stayed here all her pregnancy. He says, under such
horrendous conditions. Under the bombing, Russian
troops commandeered the stables of other horse owners.
The Russians stole from here. What did they take Oh,
Alexandra Panchenko says the Russians stole everything
in her barn and 13 of the horses she boarded, died 13
year old. Now I'm 27 years old, I've lost everything
she says. What She hasn't lost is her love of horses.
She leads many of the rescue operations. The bigg
challenge ahead winter and feeding and housing 5000
rescued horses, which costs around $200 per month per
horse money that comes from donations. People, they're
donating from 5 to 500 to $700 from around the world,
from all around The vote from United States, from Japan,
from everywhere us, equestrian sent veterinary supp
donation for about $100,000 before the war. Stashenko
published photo books of horses, ironically and no
longer Russia was her primary market. Now her life is
devoted to saving the animals. She has loved since she
was a child. Everybody has their own front line. There
are people that are caring about people, people abo
caring about Children, but I can care about horses. So
I'm focused on that. And this is my front line. Your
front line. Yes, I care about horses. Yes, I'm sure
that this is my mission in this world, that work in
particular. The work to save horses in the heart. Kiev
region continues to carry risks. Late this afternoon,
we got word that Russia targeted the city of Kribi rig
in central Ukraine with eight cruise missiles,
according to officials. They hit hydraulic
infrastructure and now the wate in that city is rising
and we're monitoring to see if that causes serious
flooding. It may be no coincidence that this happen
in Presidents Alinsky's hometow and also on the day
when he visited Izzy, um, the strategic hub from which
Ukrainian forces removed the Russians as part of their
lightning counter offensive in the north. Given how
close cesium remains to the front lines and Russia's
continued ability to strike with cruise missiles, It
was a daring move by Ukraine's president in line wit
what continue to be daring moves by Ukraine's army
chance