“Surrounded by Russian troops” in Liutish, north of Kyiv, now “without food and water for two days for himself and his collaborators”. But even “without food for his animals, he decided not to leave Ukraine for them”. Vlada Shalutko, wife of animalist Andrea Cisternino, 63 years old and in Ukraine for 13 years, tells Adnkronos. ” My husband stocked up before the war started, but now they’re gone. And there are four hundred dogs, cats, sheep, horses, cows and other animals to feed, says Shalutko, explaining that she and her husband run KJ2, an “animal shelter for animals rescued from slaughter and abuse.
The woman, who is now abroad, says she hasn’t heard from her husband for two days. He called me two days ago to tell me he was alive. Then nothing more. Maybe he doesn’t call me so as not to worry me. Maybe they’re all dead. What Shalutko is calling for is “a humanitarian corridor that will allow the International Red Cross to bring supplies and “Italy’s intervention to ask the Ukrainian authorities for permits for aid shipments. What is certain is that Cisternino “will not go away, he will never abandon his animals”.