Russians hit Kharkiv ecopark with guided bomb – elite birds killed, some injured

On January 1, the Russians again shelled Kharkiv, causing damage to the ecopark. As a result of the strike with a guided bomb with a jet engine, elite birds were killed, people and animals, including lions, were injured.

The founder of the park, Oleksandr Feldman, spoke about the consequences of the strike and the condition of the animals.

According to the founder of the ecopark, the Russians killed parrots and pheasants that lived in the park. Oleksandr Feldman noted that most of the park’s birds died, the bomb also destroyed the wintering ground for predators and the wintering area for birds. “If not all of the birds died, then most of them. The shell hit the aviary. All the parrots, pheasants, all the elite birds that need warm conditions were in this building,” said Oleksandr Feldman.

In addition, the lions were injured by the guided bomb and the small animal enclosure was destroyed. “We can’t say yet. We don’t understand what happened to the tigers. One ran into a three-story building, another is sitting in a half-open enclosure. He hid in a hut. While he’s sitting there. We’re waiting for a sedative gun. We had all the sedatives in the building where the guided bomb hit. We’re waiting for a gun to move him to another enclosure,” Feldman said. In addition to the park’s residents, a volunteer who was there was injured. “One volunteer was injured. But it seems to be minor. Her head was cut open, she got into the ambulance herself and left,” the ecopark founder said.