.Russian volunteers are delivering pet cats to fight off rodent infestations in the battleground trenches throughout the country's infiltration of Ukraine, neighborhood media reported Monday." The soldiers fussed to me that they're pestered by mice," volunteer Vladimir Malygin told the state-affiliated media outlet Tatar Inform." Kitties spared the Hermitage during the course of the Great Patriotic Battle [The Second World War], so I believed why not send them felines," pointed out Malygin, that heads a military-patriotic club in Russia's republic of Tatarstan.Speaking throughout a local 12-hour army employment telethon, Malygin flaunted an orange residential pet cat named Ryzhik that he mentioned was ready for deployment.Russian media drew attention to his reputation in between "warm, dear kitties coming from Tatarstan for our boys" and seemingly "man-eating" cats residing in Russian-occupied asian Ukraine." Felines from Donetsk are actually additionally kitties, but regretfully they roam the industries where, as you know, there are a lot of dead soldiers," Malygin said, explaining the inspiration responsible for his project.Tatarstan, home to around 2 million Tatars, a cultural minority of Turkic beginning, delivers a number of the nation's highest one-time remittances for brand new military employees at 1.5 million rubles ($ 17,000).Tatarstan's army employment campaign made headlines recently for encouraging 100,000-ruble ($ 1,100) perks for those that enroll a good friend or member of the family.Besides the so-called "frontline kitties," Tatarstan's telethon included prominent Tatar musicians, soldiers, officials and volunteers.