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Rescue without borders: a stork and a call from the front

30 червня 2026 р.Команда «Вільні крила»Rescues
Птах у центрі «Вільні крила»
Birds know no administrative borders — and neither do we. People reach out from all over Ukraine, sometimes in ways unimaginable a few years ago.Once, soldiers near Kharkiv connected by video call straight from the front line: an injured stork was beside them and they needed advice. Together, hundreds of kilometres apart, we managed to save the bird.These stories remind us: care for living things stays with us even in the hardest times.
Birds know no administrative borders — and neither do we. People reach out to us from all over Ukraine, sometimes in ways that just a few years ago were hard to imagine.
One day soldiers from near Kharkiv got in touch by video call straight from the front line: a wounded stork was beside them and they needed advice on how to help it. Together, across hundreds of kilometres, we managed to save the bird. The soldiers also brought us a bird with a concussion — as much a victim of the war as people are.
These stories are a reminder: care for living things stays with us even in the hardest of times.