Video shows kangaroos being evacuated to safety from Ukrainian zoo after their closures were 'repeatedly shelled'

• A mob of kangaroos was rescued after its enclosures were "repeatedly shelled" at Kharkiv's Feldman Ecopark.
• In a video shared by the zoo, a man is seen driving a van with several kangaroos in the back.

A mob of kangaroos has been evacuated to safety after their enclosures were "repeatedly shelled," a Ukrainian zoo in the besieged city of Kharkiv said on Facebook.

In a video shared by Feldman Ecopark on Saturday, a man drives a van with at least nine kangaroos loaded in the back.

"Today is a month since the beginning of the war, and we're continuing the evacuation of the animals," the driver said in the video, per The Washington Post.

The zoo did not say where the marsupials were being taken but wrote that "they are already safe." It added that "this is very nice, because their enclosures, unfortunately, were repeatedly shelled." Feldman Ecopark did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

While the kangaroos have been rescued, other animals at the zoo were less fortunate.

On Sunday, the park shared photos of what it said were the remains of shells and announced that a mandrill named Stepan — "a favorite of Kharkiv residents" — had been a victim. Last Friday, it said that four deer and three goats were also killed, adding to a growing list of animal victims that include large cats, primates, and birds.

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, zoos in the country have been caught in the crossfire. Earlier this month, some staffers and their families moved into the Kyiv Zoo to continue caring for the 4,000 animals there even as "tracer ammunition was flying all over the zoo," zoo director Kirill Trentin said.

The group refers to itself as a "zoo military commune," according to Reuters.