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Daily Mirror
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Nathan Clarke & Milica Cosic

Three-legged cat 'hours from death' in Kyiv now a regular in UK pub

A woman has revealed how she travelled to war-torn Ukraine with the intention of helping refugees cross the border into Poland, but 'fell in love' with helping the 'forgotten animals of war'.

Wendy Lloyd, from Harborne, south-west Birmingham, travelled to Ukraine to join the other brave Brits helping refugees cross the border into Poland from Ukraine, but while she was in a makeshift animal shelter in the mountains around Kyiv, Wendy met Rocket.

It was then, when meeting the three-legged cat, that Wendy began wondering how she could help the other pets that had been left behind as their owners fled Vladimir Putin 's wrath, reports Birmingham Live.

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