{"id":2025,"date":"2026-10-27T23:46:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/b-c-man-who-started-dog-rescue-killed-while-saving-animals-in-ukraine-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T23:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:46:03","slug":"b-c-man-who-started-dog-rescue-killed-while-saving-animals-in-ukraine-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/b-c-man-who-started-dog-rescue-killed-while-saving-animals-in-ukraine-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. man who started dog rescue killed while saving animals in Ukraine | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A B.C. man who started a dog rescue has been killed while saving animals in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Jesse Adams founded RainCoast Dog Rescue<\/a> Society, which is based in Victoria on Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, Adams posted on Facebook<\/a> that he was heading out on a rescue mission in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Two days later, an FPV (first-person view) drone struck the vehicle he was using to transport the animals, according to the rescue society.<\/p>\n

Adams suffered severe injuries and underwent emergency surgery, but doctors were unable to save him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best thing I can say is Jesse was a force of nature,\u201d Penny Stone, executive director of the Victoria Humane Society, told Global News.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was unbelievably go, go, go. Wherever help was needed, Jesse was. It didn\u2019t matter. And I mean, it shows in that he went to Kabul and he went to Ukraine a number of times. He was just like wherever they needed help the most.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stone said Adams was someone who always stepped up and was there for every animal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen he was in Ukraine, I know he was rescuing tigers and lions and different kinds of species, pigs and goats and stuff, and he would post about it and it was quite funny and we\u2019d laugh about what he was doing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I mean, he was just that guy, where it was needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stone said Adams also travelled to small communities to help the people living there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tragic loss. He was a real hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stone added that the space Adams left behind will be impossible to fill.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just believed every animal and every person deserved a chance and he never backed down for fighting for the little guy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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