Man fleeing Ukraine war with his kitten found alive in frigid Romania mountains: "Peach kept my heart warm"
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A Ukrainian man who embarked on a perilous journey fleeing his war-torn country into Romania was rescued from a deep mountain ravine in subzero temperatures with an unlikely companion: his months-old kitten named Peach.
More than a dozen rescuers worked in a harsh blizzard to save Vladislav Duda, 28, who was found "soaked and frozen" and severely hypothermic in a 400-meter (437-yard) deep ravine in the northern Maramures region last week, according to the region's mountain rescue service. Duda had fled Ukraine to avoid being drafted into his country's armed forces fighting Russia.
"The cat was warm and was warming him … so he saved his life," Dan Benga, the director of the Maramures mountain rescue service, told The Associated Press. "The only thing we saw he is caring about is the cat. He doesn't care about himself."
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