Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced the opening of a new building for the canine center of the National Police Headquarters in the city of Bucha, Kyiv region.
“This morning, we opened a new building for the National Police Dog Training Center in Bucha together with Igor Klymenko and Howard Buffett, who financed its construction. The previous premises were in Irpin, but at the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Russian hail fell on it,” Svyrydenko wrote on Telegram.
According to her, this center is one of the best in Europe: it has 80 kennels, a covered training area, an obstacle course, and a modern veterinary center.
“The center’s space is adapted for people with disabilities so that veterans can come here for canine therapy. Currently, 54 dogs serve at this canine center. In total, about 1,000 dogs serve in the National Police, and there have been losses in the K9 ranks during the invasion,” the prime minister said.
Svyrydenko noted that the project to restore the canine center is part of a systematic demining policy in Ukraine, which the Howard Buffett Foundation is consistently helping us to implement.
“Ukraine is the most contaminated country in the world with explosive ordnance, and we need a lot of resources to move quickly and bring life back to communities. The canine service is one of the elements of the infrastructure that contributes to rapid demining and restoration of security. In addition to searching for explosives, service dogs help rescuers find people under rubble after enemy shelling,” she wrote, thanking Buffett.
