March 18 (UPI) — Stepan, an internet-famous tabby cat who has greater than 1,000,000 followers on Instagram and Tik Tok, has escaped war-torn Ukraine.
The cat’s social media pages went silent on March 3, alarming his followers. Stepan’s proprietor, recognized solely as Anna, gave an replace on Instagram this week on how they made it to security following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We spent two nights within the basement and with out electrical energy for every week. We needed to go to the close by basement to cost the telephone. Then we managed to go away town. Kharkiv volunteers helped by taking us to the railway station. We acquired on the practice Kharkiv – Lviv (in 20 hours, we acquired to Lviv). Then we adopted to the border with Poland,” the submit mentioned alongside pictures of Stepan’s journey.
“On the border, we stood in line in a pedestrian crossing. There have been lots of people (4-5 thousand). After 9 hours, we crossed the border. Once we reached Poland, we had been supplied assist from the World Influencers and Bloggers Affiliation from Monaco. They helped us get to France to attend for the very day after we may return house. We’re all proper now. We fear very a lot about our family in Ukraine and can do the easiest we are able to to assist our nation,” the submit continued.
Anna, her household and Stepan had been in a position to flee with the assistance of The World Influencers and Bloggers Affiliation. The group, based in 2019, unites influencers from all around the world.
The group, who voted Stephan as one of many world’s prime pet influencers, was in a position assist the household escape, and rented an condo in France for the well-known tabby and his homeowners to remain in.
“It was not really easy, on every stage we had been in contact with them,” mentioned Iryna Savchak, a spokeswoman for the World Influencers and Bloggers Affiliation. “Now, we’re personally caring for them in France.”
Stepan’s Instagram account detailed the harm accomplished to his household’s house and environment in Kharkiv.
The 13-year-old tabby cat referred to as for peace just lately together with his Instagram account stating “Ukraine doesn’t desire a warfare,” alongside a photograph of the cat with a Ukrainian-colored coronary heart above his head.
Stepan got here to fame in November when Britney Spears posted content material from the cat that was preferred multiple million instances. Hailey Bieber and Diane Kruger are additionally followers.