Taras, a four-year-old lion cub rescued from the war in Ukraine and brought to a Minnesota sanctuary, is now fighting a rare and often fatal fungal infection. Taras was found as a four-month-old cub in a duffel bag at Odesa railway station.

A female train attendant was fatally injured and another passenger wounded on the Odesa Railway during an evacuation prompted by a Russian drone threat, when she was struck by an oncoming train.