UKRAINE | Ilona Arsentieva

Hello, my name is Ilona and I am Ukrainian. I was born in the beautiful city Kyiv, in a big family, I have 5 sisters and 6 brothers, I am the oldest. And as a child, i was engaged in dancing, starred in films and commercials and dreamed that when I grow up I will get a horse, and so it happened) for a year I have a wonderful horse Wolfram, we train with him and prepare for competitions. For the 2 month a war in my country, my relatives are safe (dad with siblings went to Germany), but my 2 brothers and I stayed in Kyiv, this is our home and we don’t plan to leave, I believe in peace , which should come soon, the war is destroying everything and everyone, it must be finished.

Since childhood, I love animals very much and help whenever possible. I recently witnessed cruelty to animals in the stable in Ukraine. After posting on Facebook, a lot of people reacted, I filed a police report against for the owner of the stable and the case gained momentum. I believe that peace will come and laws will be able to protect animals, as it happens in Europe, animals also have the right to a normal life.