The family asked the neighbors to take the cat with them, but they didn't have time either, because the Russians settled in the house. They set up their armored personnel carrier in the yard and dug a trench along the fence.

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"For 38 days I stubbornly believed that the cat was alive. No evidence, even though everyone wrote that there was hell in our village. Apparently, I’ve been annoying all the funds and volunteer centers, and support groups of Hostomel and Bucha (trying to get help in saving the cat)”.

The animal has been stolen by the occupiers

Olena has got a call from Belarusian volunteers. It turned out that Max had been stolen by the Russian military.

Together with them, the cat drove more than 300 kilometers in the armor of a Russian armored personnel carrier, along with household appliances stolen from the residents of Bucha and Irpen.

But in Homel, Belarus, the Maine Coon fled from the occupiers and settled near the locals. A collar with a pendant with the owners' contacts on it helped the Belarusians to find the owners of the cat.