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Sunny the owl, lives on with just one wing ❤️ (www.theguardian.com)
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Blinded and broken, Sunny the owl becomes another casualty of Russia’s war 

Russia sent kamikaze drones to attack the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia in February. They hit buildings and killed several people. One unreported victim of the bombardment was a male long-eared owl, blinded in one eye and found with a badly broken wing. A passerby scooped up the stunned bird, put him in a box and took him to the city of Dnipro.

The owl – nicknamed Sunny – is now recovering in a cosy room belonging to Veronica Konkova. No longer able to fly or hunt, Sunny instead hops around.

Konkova said: “The fracture was so bad his left wing had to be amputated. The vet diagnosed brain trauma. Sunny doesn’t react normally to light.”

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Ciegado y roto, Sunny el búho se convierte en otra víctima de la guerra rusa (www.theguardian.com)
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Plushka y Sunny son dos búhos originarios de Ucrania que han quedado permanentemente incapacitados por municiones desde la invasión a gran escala de Rusia en su país en 2022. Son dos entre cientos de miles de aves atrapadas en la determinación de Putin de seguir vertiendo sangre y recursos para aniquilar a otra nación soberana. Arriba con Plushka y Sunny, abajo con Putin.

Plushka and Sunny are two owls native to Ukraine who have been permanently crippled by munitions since Russia's full scale invasion of their country in 2022. They are two out of hundreds of thousands of birds caught up in Putin's determination to keep pouring blood and treasure into annihilating another sovereign nation. Up with Plushka and Sunny, down with Putin.