There was a glimpse of humour for the residents of Kharkiv in Ukraine, as an escaped chimpanzee from a local zoo wandered around the city's streets.
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Chichi, who broke out of the zoo on Monday, was followed around by the zoo's employees who attempted to persuade her to return. After a spot of rain, Chichi collected a jacket from a member of the zoo's staff and was eventually put on a bike back to the facility. The zoo's director, Oleksiy Hryhoriev, told Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne that the animal was returned safely.

Kharkiv is one of Ukraine's frontline cities facing Russian shelling. Feldman's ecological park, Chichi's former home, was hit by a rocket attack earlier in the conflict, killing at least six volunteers and and hundred animals according to the zoo's owner.

Rockets also hit a residential building near the city centre on Tuesday, killing at least one person.

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