Ukrzaliznytsia and the Club 4 Paws pet food developed by the Ukrainian manufacturer Kormotech LLC provided 11 of the country's largest stations with convenient drinking water dispensers for animals traveling by train.
The large-scale evacuation of passengers and their animals from the very beginning of the full-scale invasion showed how important their pets are to Ukrainians. 112,000 animals — from cats and dogs to exotic domestic foxes, raccoons, iguanas, and crocodiles — were safely transported by Ukrzaliznytsia trains.
"Ukrainians are returning home — and with them their pets, so we are already making the railway as animal-friendly as possible: we simplify ticketing for pets through the application, we take them on board the children's railway for free, and from now on, we also install them at stations in Kyiv, in Kharkiv, Lviv, Odessa, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Poltava (Poltava-Kyivska) and Uzhhorod drinking fountains with large tanks for drinking water," writes Ukrzaliznytsia.
The design of the drinking bowl provides for the presence of a faucet valve, with the help of which any visitor to the station can add water to the bowls if necessary.
