Lyudmila Kostiuk, a soldier of one of the territorial defense units in Volyn, serves with her tailed pet.

In the summer, a woman who was a successful entrepreneur went to enroll in the Teroboron.

She took a cat with her, and for five months they have been serving together in one of the military units near the Belarusian border, TSN reports. 

Gridge was a quiet and calm cat while he lived in the city, but now he has settled with the military in the forest and gives a good scratch to the local cats.

He is here thanks to his mistress, who came to work in the summer and took the cat with her, because there was no one to leave him at home.

"He got used to it so quickly.

Within an hour, he already knew where to eat," Lyudmila says. 

Now she smiles and jokes, a year ago, Lyudmila says, she was not up to laughing.

"My sister and her husband are in the military.

They lived in Mariupol and brought the children to me.

And I went with them to Italy," she recalls. 

The woman lived abroad for four months and decided to return home, but she did not stay there for long - she volunteered to serve.

Although at that time she was a successful co-owner of a coffee shop. 

She traded her business for the army and now serves together with Grijo.

At first, Lyudmila was worried about how her siblings would accept her furry friend, but, as it turned out, she was worried in vain.

The military laugh that a whole cat battalion has already been formed.

Lyudmila has no plans to return to civilian life yet, and Grijo doesn't want to go home either.

"Supports me morally.

Meets me in the morning when I go to work.

I go out - he is standing," Lyudmila says. 

Thus, the two of them have been serving for five months and know that they will wait for victory.

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