“We are currently transferring the horses at this stud farm to other stud farms in Ukraine,” director of the state-owned enterprise “Horse Breeding of Ukraine” Vitaliy Brovko told AFP. “There have been cases where horses had miscarriages from stress,” the horse farm worker Oleksandr Konyakhin told AFP. A month prior, seven horses were killed in the Kyiv region during a large-scale Russian attack which hit an equestrian club. In the Zaporizhzhia stud farm, the evacuations continued, with over a dozen transports already carried out. “If the situation worsens, we will evacuate the entire stud farm,” Vitaliy Brovko said.

Source: The Guardian December 24, 2025 20:34 UTC