Alexander Smal is a Russian TV presenter of Channel One, the programs "Have you seen the video?" and "Anti-fake"

The military commander tells about the adventures of the cat and its owner in his material KP.RU Alexander Kotz.

The four-legged gray fighter became famous after a video got online where a cat flies a helicopter with the military and lives in their location. The cat even has its own telegram channel with several thousand subscribers. 

In the LPR, the Komsomol commander learned a lot about the unusual soldier. The owner of the cat Barmaley used to serve in the Kiev presidential regiment and now he is fighting on our side. The cat does not lag behind its owner. Then with the scouts on the way out, then with the search and rescue service on the way out. Now he's going to the tankers.

"A young grey cat climbed over his master's camouflaged shoulder in the driver's seat of a UAZ and busily descended onto my lap. Standing on his hind legs, he carefully looked out the window, assessing the situation outside with his black eyes. And there the autumn exploded in bright colors, flooded with the still warm sun. Judging by the outstretched moustache, Barmalei liked it and I knew perfectly well that rains would come after this fleeting motley period. And with them is an impassable dummy, which will stick to rubber boots with dirty kilograms, turning them into heavy diving bots," the military commander writes.

Barmaley is a cross between an ordinary cat and, it seems, a noble Briton, he has become the unofficial mascot of the Southern Group of Troops.

- A friend from the special forces gave it to me, - says the officer. - The cat chose me. He was the size of a palm, climbed up my pant leg and fell asleep. And a friend says, "Take it, let it be with you now."

- Since then he has been traveling through units, communicating with fighters, studying the basics of various weapons. Already passed a basic combat training . Well, it affects like psychological unloading on fighters.

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Oksana Durova and Yulia Dezhnova have created an effective system of housing "retired dogs," says https://www.forbes.ru/forbes-woman/496725-zelenyj-pes-kak-dve-podrugi-pridumali-scastlivuu-pensiu-sluzebnym-sobakamForbes Woman. The friends worked together at the Kommersant publishing house, made dozens of media special projects. Once at an exhibition about service dogs Oksana and Julia heard from dog handlers about a serious problem - it is impossible for retired service dogs to find a home. 

Dogs usually serve for about seven years, but sometimes they stay longer because of their unique qualities. However, after a maximum of 10 years they are still written off "by age". Up to three thousand dogs are written off from all special services in Russia per year, only a third can find new owners. 

"In retirement, dogs often "burn out" from lack of movement and their uselessness. When we realized the depth of the problem, a "Green Dog" appeared. Our task is to place retired dogs in good, cool, kind hands, who served faithfully," the founders of the project say. 

The Green Dog is a retired service dog club. The club has its own "dating site". And this is not just a file cabinet, but a full-fledged dog selection service according to criteria, characteristics, content, conditions. On average, the project attaches several dogs per week. 

"It's a pleasure to have one in your house or apartment," they say in the Green Dog. Such dogs follow commands the first time and help out their owners. 

There are unrealistic stories. For example, a man forgot to turn off the pot of broth, sat down at the computer, and the dog sits next to him and starts pulling into the kitchen. It turned out that the broth had boiled away and there were minutes left before the fire," says Julia.

The project keeps in touch with all the owners: the owners send photos and share news. One woman told how a Labrador saved her in the eighth month of pregnancy when she almost fell down the stairs. 

The geography of the project extends so far only to Moscow and the Moscow region — logistics has been worked out here. Once a woman from Orenburg liked the dog, but the delivery would take three days and cost 20,000 rubles - so far such a decision is impossible. Oksana and Yulia want to make the project federal and find volunteers in the regions.

The founders of the "Green Dog" believe that the village of service dogs will allow scaling the project - an important intermediate stage of the arrangement between the kennel and the family. 

The "Green Dog" is confident that parents with children will be able to come to the village of dogs, young dog handlers and veterinarians will be able to undergo pre-graduate practice. And this, according to the founders of the project, needs to be done urgently, because if the dog does not work, it quickly dies.

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Maria Ozmitel, journalist, correspondent of the Central Asian Representative Office of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Editorial Office of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta":