KYIV, March 27 — A rider in camouflage lies forward and hugs the neck of a horse called Peach, stroking his coat. In a cosy barn on the outskirts of Kyiv, a group of...
KYIV, March 27 — A rider in camouflage lies forward and hugs the neck of a horse called Peach, stroking his coat.
The organisation, called Spirit, also works with children and people with disabilities. When war broke out, it began offering hippotherapy to frontline soldiers via a programme called Spirit Warrior. Three shaggy dogs sprawl in the centre, one with its paws around a soldier’s boot. A stove burns warmly and a ginger cat sleeps curled up next to it.Then she asks them to look at the dogs and a tortoiseshell cat and say which one they identify with.‘A horse is a healer’
One soldier holds the paws of a tousled brown dog. Others stroke the cat and tickle a big sheepdog under the chin. “You get exercise and some kind of psychological unburdening from horses because a horse is a healer,” he says.Burago says the soldiers she works with are taking a break from the front in Kyiv and will return there.
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