Ukrainian firefighters known for rescuing people from buildings hit by shelling in more than six months of war turned their attention over the weekend to a furry victim — a grey-and-white kitten.
The rescuers, wearing full firefighting gear, battled raging flames and smoke to pull the kitten out from under a metal chair in the rubble of a large wooden hotel-restaurant complex hit by a rocket in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, the country's emergency services said on Facebook.
Video showed the firefighters petting and cuddling the feline as they carried it to safety.
"We found a beauty," one of the firefighters said as the kitten wiggled around in a colleague's arms.
