- I have a lot of clients
from these small towns around Kyiv,
and they had, they were volunteering with the stray animals.
They were helping stray animals.
And so I know some of them were first
to leave with a part of this, like, some of this animal
because others just escaped, and they ran away.
And they are running now there.
Animals who lived all their lives in the house,
and they were cared about.
And now they're on the streets
where there's just literally tanks driving around.
So yeah, there are a lot of feelings,
and I don't think that I would be able, you know,
to express it all at the moment
really well because it's a lot of thoughts,
and a lot of emotions,
and yeah, guilt is one of the biggest
probably because whatever you do,
you still feel that it is not enough.
I have a really close colleague of mine
the lady who I know, like for more than 20 years.
They were under the occupation for two weeks.
And the stories they were telling were really horrible
with these people coming and, you know, stealing things
from the houses where the really, the least they did.
And they were beating, like, regular people,
they were raping, and a lot of different, bad things.
So it's really scary when you even read about it,
even read about it, you know,
or hear even if you were not in this situation
- Is there anything that you want to talk about
that I haven't asked or we haven't discussed yet?
- Mm, (nervous chuckles) no.
It's hard to think, because as I told you,
it's so many aspects of the situation,
and so many thoughts and emotions.
And I don't think that I could pick one
because from all the topics,
the one of the most important for me
is what you are talking about
is the way to show people all around the world
that are like real people inside of this situation,
inside of this war,
and that suffer from it.
And what I personally can do to maybe feel less guilty
that I'm doing nothing to help
is to
maybe tell from my perspective
the situation a of person as a refugee,
and a situation from the perspective
of a veterinarian as a refugee,
what we we are facing in this situation,
what are the problems.