Tubik’s Journey: From War Zone to Hope for a Home

Most dogs get rescued, but Tubik took matters into his own paws.

A member of the Ukrainian military found Tubik hungry, alone, and exhausted by the Druzhkivka-Kramatorsk checkpoint in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. To get there, Tubik had to have crossed minefields, abandoned villages – there isn’t a single house or settlement for miles.

Tubik remembers what it’s like to have a family and a human who loves him, so he did everything in his power to find someone who could save him from the horrific war. 

The soldiers who took him in and saw what a loving dog Tubik was, so on their way to their next assignment, they went out of their way to bring Tubik to the Dnipro Shelter. 

Once there, Tubik did not stop campaigning to find his forever human. He won the hearts of the shelter team, who quickly decided he needed the best possible home and asked Sochi Dogs to find a very special family for him in the US. 


 

When found

A few months later