As of the morning of April the 11th, 183 children died in Ukraine due to the war. This was announced by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova. According to her, another 342 children were injured. These figures are not final, it is not known exactly how many children died in the occupied territories and in areas of active hostilities.
Slow-action mines were found on April the 11th in various districts of Kharkiv. This was announced by the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov. According to him, ammunition with a plastic body, small in size, weighing about 1.5 kg. were scattered in the courtyards of houses and streets. Rescuers are searching for and deactivating these mines. They are blown up on the spot.
Ukrainians have already filed over 66,000 claims of damaged property as a result of a full-scale Russian invasion. This was announced by Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. According to the Minister, this information is needed by experts and commissions, which will later conduct an assessment of housing. A person can apply only for his own house or apartment, if it is a block of flats. They will then conduct an assessment and determine compensation from the government.
In the Kyiv region, the village of Demydiv is under threat of flooding. There, Russian troops shelled the dam between the Kyiv Reservoir and the Irpin River. Therefore, the water level in the river has risen critically. Some houses are already flooded. The dam was destroyed by the Russian military on the 19th of March. Since then, the water level in the river reaches the maximum allowable level.
The evacuation of animals from the Kharkiv Ecopark continues. On April the 11th, polar foxes, caracals and badgers were evacuated. Oleksiy Kostiuchenko, a spokesman for the ecopark, spoke about this. According to him, so far it has not been possible to take out bears, a tiger and two lions. There are also many ungulates, smaller animals and birds left in the ecopark. A tiger and a tigress were recently evacuated from there. On April the 8th, the ecopark was heavily shelled again. Cheetah cages came under fire. Cheetahs had been evacuated the day before.
Animals evacuated from the combat zone are accepted at the Rivne Zoo. The Zoo is ready to accept the animals from the Kharkiv Ecopark too, said the director of the zoo Oleh Pavliuk. Since the beginning of the war, his zoo has provided shelter for those animals whose owners cannot provide safe and full living conditions.
Already 16 monkeys live in our zoo, evacuated from the zoo "12 months", near Kyiv. It was also under attack. These monkeys were actually taken out under fire. They are already with us, we have never had such monkeys. Colobuses, and mangabeys, and monkey Braza. We received 20 raccoons from the Dnipropetrovsk region. There were also problems, there were no owners and no one to feed them. "
During the war, Rivne Zoo became one of the hubs for the transfer to other zoos of food and medicine for animals provided by the European Zoo Association.
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