Since arriving in Poland on March 5, Louisa Gouliamaki and other photographers have seen refugees traveling with their pet dogs, birds and even a turtle, she told NPR over Instagram. One of the recurring sights on the road were other families with dogs peering from their car windows, he said. Puzo used to get nauseous on short road trips in the past, but he was fine on this long journey west 'and always wants to be in my mom's hand,' Jake said. Jake gathered his wife, Dasha their pug his mom and some personal possessions and hit the road on March 3 along with a caravan of 20 other family members in search of safety in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city roughly 680 miles away. It has been complete chaos and panic ever since.' 'And then I just started hearing explosions and windows started to shatter.

'I was just sitting there for 5 or 10 minutes completely terrified,' Jake said. Security Council meeting.Īs diplomats pleaded for Russia to back off, Jake shifted his focus to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had just gone on TV in his homeland to launch a military operation against Ukraine. Jake was up late watching YouTube videos when he decided to tune into the emergency U.N. Those peaceful times were shattered for Jake, a network engineer, on Feb. 'He would be snoring all the time and it would remind me of the peaceful times.' It was soothing,' Jake, who asked for his last name to be withheld out of fear for his family, told NPR over Google Meet. 'Every day, after the bombings would stop, I would get up and go to the room where was hiding and rub him. Jake, 31, is among scores of displaced Ukrainians who have refused to leave their animals behind due to the immense comfort and familiarity they've provided during a time of unprecedented turmoil caused by Russia. Stuffed in the back of the Nissan as he fled his hometown of Kharkiv, Ukraine, were two of Jake's most prized possessions: his Nintendo Switch and Puzo, his pet pug.

Puzo the pug has provided his owner Jake an endless source of relief and affection during his journey west out of Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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