Russian occupants removed from Kherson to Crimea most of local zoo's collection

The Russian occupiers took everything they could out of Kherson. They took the town's children's steam train, raccoons from the zoo, as well as a llama, a wolf, a donkey and squirrels

In particular, Russian poetess Anna Dolgareva wrote that "the only good news" for the occupiers while retreating from Kherson is that her comrade "managed to paint a raccoon from the Kherson zoo." Judging by the footage published online, the subject in question is Oleg Zubkov, owner of the Crimean Taigan Zoo. A video on his YouTube channel shows a man stealing a raccoon. According to Zubkov, he was asked by the occupation administration in Kherson Region to remove the animals from the zoo.

The footage shows a man in camouflage fetching one raccoon each in an enclosure. He grabs the animals by their tails and tosses them into a box.

In his turn, the speaker of the Odessa military administration, Serhiy Bratchuk, said that the Ukrainian side was ready to exchange the ten captured Russian mobilized soldiers for a stolen raccoon:

I can't understand why the Russian occupants stole a Ukrainian raccoon... Give our Ukrainian raccoon back, we will give you ten chmobilists back

It is worth noting that the news quickly went viral on social networks, causing a flurry of jokes and memes. Ukrainians warned that the raccoon "works for the SBU" and that the thief would still regret stealing it. Some users suggested that the Russians needed the animal to wash socks, like in the cartoon about Tiny the Raccoon, or to appoint it "the chairman of the government of Kherson Region in exile".