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A woman gestures at a horse at an equestrian rehabilitation centre in a village in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, November 5, 2025. The founder of the centre, Nina Kovaliv, worked for many years as an accountant, including at a stud farm, where her love for horses began. There she bought her first mare, Richka, saving her from slaughter. With the outbreak of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Nina started rescuing horses from shelling and abandonment. Among them was Zara, a pony left behind in a garage when its owners evacuated, and a mare from the front-line village of Novodanylivka. To keep her horses, Nina opened the centre in a village in Zaporizhzhia region in June of this year, offering free services to veterans of the Russia-Ukraine war.