WAR ZONE BEAR HAS NEW HOME
Daily Record|January 13, 2024
Plucky Asiatic black survives being shelled
ELIZABETH HUNTER
WAR ZONE BEAR HAS NEW HOME

A BEAR rescued from an abandoned zoo in war-torn Ukraine, where it had been hit by shells, has been saved and relocated to Scotland.

The Asiatic black was discovered when Ukrainian soldiers entered the village of Yampil which had been under Russian occupation for five months.

The village contained a zoo that had once held over 200 animals - but black bear Yampil was one of the survivors of only the invasion.

This story is from the January 13, 2024 edition of Daily Record.

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