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CNN’s Erin Burnett who found that the cat cafe was the only place where she could get food saw a family fleeing Russian invasion inside the cafe. “They were smiling because they saw the cat wheel. You can not look at that and not smile and today any human being of this country needs the gift of a smile,” she said.
The famed cat cafe in Lviv, a city in Western Ukraine, was almost shut down on Friday, the second day of the Russia-Ukraine war, but the proprietors stated they can’t leave Lviv and that they need to be in the business to feed the 20 cats they have. “Our kitties are fearless,” the proprietors told CNN’s Erin Burnett, who tweeted about how she landed up at the adorable cat cafe while looking for a bite to eat while everything else was closed.
“It is a dark and heavy day here. But I found something that couldn’t stop a smile. The only food I saw open – Cat Cafe. The owners are making food with what they have – they smiled: Our cats are brave,” Erin tweeted.
“A place is made up of a lot of small stories.” And they’re all quite large. The cat cafe is open because, according to the proprietors, there are 20 cats to feed. ‘This is our existence.’ “They are not going anywhere,” the CNN correspondent wrote on Twitter.
“By early afternoon, the streets were nearly vacant. Nothing was accessible. Restaurants that were bustling just a week ago are now completely closed. I went out to buy lunch for our team after filming throughout the city. The cat cafe was the only place open after half an hour of strolling. “There was a family plainly fleeing the Russian invasion, their enormous backpacks, blankets on them… yet they were laughing when they saw the kitty wheel,” Erin Burnett said on her show about her visit to the cafe.
“If we go, no one will feed our cats. We will never leave Ukraine,” the owners of the beautiful, well-behaved cats told the journalist. “They stay because they love their cats. It just made me realise at this moment that people stay for so many different reasons,” the journalist said.
