Conflict · Drone pet rescueAlleski drone pets: Dog and cat flown out of occupied OleshkyAired October 26, 2026 at 10:21 PM UTCWritten October 26, 2026 at 10:24 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07Ukrainian soldiers flew a dog and a cat out of an occupied city by drone.0:10Both pets reached the soldiers' headquarters, frightened and disoriented.0:14But safe, an operation delivering aid to residents is also carrying their animals0:18out.0:18Whether two cats that escaped during loading also reached safety is still unclear.0:22Oleshki is under Russian occupation in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, on the0:26left bank of the Dimikro River.0:28It's the city rendered as Oleski in descriptions of this rescue.0:31Residents asked Ukrainian soldiers to evacuate their pets.0:35A company commander known as Sohei decided to send cages by drone.0:39The soldiers belonged to the National Guard's11 Brigade, which was also preparing0:43deliveries for people still inside the city.0:45A woman placed one dog and one cat into a cage for the flight out, but two other0:49cats escaped while she tried to load the animals.0:52The drone carried the dog and cat away from the occupied city.1:03The soldiers expected the flight to Oleshki to take around fifteen minutes.1:06That estimate covered the outward journey.1:09The complete rescue took longer than that single leg.1:11At headquarters, the rescued animals were frightened and disoriented.1:15Their safe arrival doesn't tell us how they coped physically with the journey.1:18The brigade's humanitarian work includes bringing food and other aid into Olashki.1:23The pet evacuation grew from residence requests during that work.1:26Soldiers adapted an air delivery operation to bring living animals back out.1:30A separate humanitarian delivery carried over six hundred kilograms of aid in1:33fifteen containers.1:34That shipment included baby food and toys.1:37Those figures describe supplies taken into Olaski and give a sense of the wider1:40delivery effort supporting residents.1:42An earlier separate evacuation brought out a mother cat and five kittens in a cage1:46beneath a heavy drone.1:48They crossed the Dini Pro on a journey of more than ten kilometers.1:51Those six animals belonged to that earlier rescue.1:53In the dog and cat extraction, the two cats that escaped were left outside the cage1:58during loading.1:59Their later fate depends on what the soldiers were told afterward.2:02The dog and cat reached headquarters alive.2:04Soldiers were told the two escaped cats returned home and were rescued three nights2:08later.2:08Their safety still hasn't been confirmed, so T here is no confirmed final total,2:13including those two cats.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗
