Russian Zookeeper Accused of Stealing Animals From Ukraine’s Kherson Claims Relocation ‘Temporary’

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
circulated on social media over the weekend showed zookeeper Oleg Zubkov accompanied by Russian soldiers as he picked up a zoo raccoon by
its tail and placed the animal in a box.In total, seven raccoons, two wolves, peacocks, a llama and a donkey were taken from Kherson
Zoo.Zubkov said he had been asked by Vladimir Saldo, the head of the Kremlin-installed Kherson regional administration, to evacuate the
of stealing are nothing new.Earlier this year, Zubkov was convicted of negligence in Russia after one of his tigers bit a one-year-old boy's