Frontline battle cats: Meet Ukraine's surprising secret weapon | Frontline | Daily Mail

Murka is a timid little cat who lost a rear leg to Russian artillery fire in a frontline village in Donetsk. She still won't allow herself to be petted by the Ukrainian soldiers who tended her wounds and saved her life. But as she is a stray and no longer able to hunt efficiently, she is dependent on them for food. And so Murka has become a ghostly, hopping presence on the margins of their field kitchen. The soldiers make sure she doesn't go hungry. Another cat, Dusia, was abandoned when her civilian owners fled the Russian advance and is now under the care of a fire support company of the frontline 41st Brigade.

Reporter: Richard Pendlebury
Cameraman: Jamie Wiseman
Additional footage from: Daria Bahlai, Getty, Reuters and hromadske
Translator: Oleksandr Kostiuchenko
Edited by: Natasha Nellis, Nishan Chilkuri and Lisa Snell
Motion Graphics: Riccardo Fissore

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