Russian attack killed 7 horses in Kyiv region

Seven horses were killed in overnight September 7th shelling at the Endurance Horse Sport Club @enduranse_horse_sport_club near Kyiv. The stables were destroyed—people survived, but the animals did not. “After the first two hits, the horses were still alive—then the third drone finished them off,” the club owner @yuliatolpyga reports.

This attack came as part of russia’s largest overnight strike on non-frontline Ukrainian cities. Shahed drones and missiles rained down across the country: 805 drones and 13 missiles were launched, 751 intercepted, but dozens of targets were still struck in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, and at least 37 other locations. Fires and destruction spread. A mother and her two-month-old son were killed when a residential building was hit. At least seven civilians died, including a young woman and a one-year-old child. Eighteen more were injured. Debris even struck the Cabinet of Ministers building—the first confirmed hit on a government HQ since the full-scale invasion began.

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“He never got the chance to become a little gray mouse.
I love you endlessly, my dear boy.
Life has torn us apart, but even death will not.

The direct strike of three Shaheds took the lives of six more horses besides Ars:
– Ra-Nazran (father of the little one, my sporting partner in 2021—we won first places at national and international competitions)
– Frosya (caught in 2022 after the occupation, she survived the hell of Bucha)
– Test (once saved by his owner from slaughter)
– Malakhita (who had been with her owners for more than 10 years)
– Maktum (the first son of my young horse’s mother, who survived today’s strike together with Holly—they are the only two left. He was my very first horse in endurance)
– Bosik (the baby who came to the stable a couple of months after I first started going there, and whom I, like the others, had known for over 7 years).