How a Facebook page for Irish setter lovers helped Ukrainians flee with their dogs
A Russian woman living in Burgundy wanted to help pet dogs of Ukraine and their human companions get to safety. She turned to a Facebook group for lovers of a famous dog breed to find them.
SEMUR-EN-AUXOIS, France â It all started with a distressing photo of a man and his dog, trying to board a train out of Ukraine in the early days of the Russian invasion.
The picture was posted on a Facebook group for Irish setter lovers of the world.
"And there was really a crowd everywhere, so he was desperately trying to put himself in [the train] and he was holding this big Irish setter," says Macha Levitin, a Moscow native who has lived for the past 13 years in this small medieval village in France's Burgundy region.
Since Russia launched its war with Ukraine in
