She secretly sneaks to the frontlines to feed cats and dogs in the ruins of her city

76 year old risked her life by staying in Orikhiv. Finally convinced to evacuate, she still returns to feed animals, even as her destroyed city becomes a focal point of the ongoing counteroffensive.

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Before the war, and before she retired, Svetlana Goi was a typist. 

The 76-year-old proudly says she was once…