Crimean collaborator, director of the Taigan lion park and the Fairytale zoo, Oleg Zubkov, said that he would not return to the occupied Mariupol animals taken out after the start of a full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. He announced this on his YouTube channel.
According to him, seven lions and bears were taken out. This is the first batch of animals to be taken to the Crimea.
According to Zubkov himself, the director of the zoo asked to take the animals out, who did not have the resources to keep the animals after the start of a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine.