A husky howls with joy after being reunited with its master after Ukrainian soldiers discovered it half-dead in an abandoned car in Bucha.
Nessy was discovered when Ukrainian forces reclaimed control of Kyiv’s town after a month-long Russian occupation that left the area destroyed and many people dead.
The husky had been separated from its owner while Russian forces occupied the town a few weeks ago, but footage released today shows the moment they were reunited.
Nessy is seen sprinting across what appears to be a parking lot before spotting the owner.
The animal then begins to run, tail wagging, until it reaches them and howls with joy at being reunited with them.
After tracking down Nessy’s owner, the Kastus Kalinouskiv Battalion, a group of Belarussian soldiers volunteering in Ukraine, organized the reunion.
‘A little positive in these difficult times,’ the group wrote on Facebook.
We discovered Nessy, the dog, alone during Bucha’s release. But, thanks to our friends, we were able to locate her hosts, and she is now back with them.’ Take a look at this emotional scene.
‘As long as some people treat people like animals, we will be fighting for the lives of all animals, not just humans.’
The footage comes after more heinous stories from the Ukrainian town of Bucha were revealed by traumatized civilians.
Following the liberation of the town in Kyiv oblast, survivors of the month-long occupation have begun to describe the gruesome treatment they received at the hands of Putin’s invading troops.
Armed forces in Ukraine claim to have discovered a Russian torture chamber inside a children’s hospital that was also being used as a makeshift barracks.
Five men were found shot to death in the basement with their hands tied behind their backs, according to a spokesman. The spokesman added that some had been tortured.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was visiting the region on Monday, denounced what he called Russian forces’ ‘genocide,’ adding that ‘we know of thousands of people killed and tortured, with severed limbs, raped women and murdered children…’ dead people have been found in barrels, basements, strangled, tortured.’
The Kremlin has denied any civilian deaths, claiming that the images emerging from Bucha are fakes created by Ukrainian forces, or that the deaths took place after Russian troops withdrew.
Bucha was attacked by Russian forces attempting to push into Kyiv in the early days of the war, and the streets were littered with the charred husks of dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, as well as the bodies of their crews.
By early March, the city was completely under Russian control, and the city was occupied by Putin’s men until last week, when troops began to withdraw after failing to take the Ukrainian capital.
Kyiv’s men moved in to reclaim the region over the weekend. It was during this time that the stories began to emerge.