Winter boots for a self-settler and rescuing animals in Prypiat.

Winter boots are best delivered in summer. So at the end of August we went to Paryshiv again - with warm boots and food bought with money from forum members.

And in Prypiat two more stories were waiting for us.

In an apartment block we heard howling and followed the sound. A feral dog had got lost in the abandoned apartments. The door had most likely been slammed by a draft, and it could no longer get out. Thin and dehydrated. We fed it, gave it water and carried it out of the building in our arms. As soon as it felt the ground under its paws, the dog bolted - and we never saw it again.

The second captive was hiding in the Prypiat hospital building. A kestrel, a small falcon, had flown inside and could not find the way out. Sergii Mirnyi caught it with his own hat, carefully carried it outside into the open and opened his hands. We managed to photograph that moment.