A test of humanity: Saving animals in flood-hit Kherson


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Animal Care Center volunteer Sergei Ludensky (right), 31, clambers through debris to rescue animals stranded by flooding in Kherson, eastern Ukraine recently. Photos: AFP

In Ukraine's flood-hit city of Kherson, volunteer Sergei Ludensky balances on logs floating in the dark green water, looking at a stranded cat perched above the water.The 31-year-old year old lunges to try to catch the distressed animal, but misses and falls into the water with floating wreckage.

He catches it on the second attempt, stroking it as he puts it in a cage.

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