One malnourished lioness had spent her life confined to an apartment. Another was so shell-shocked she could barely walk. They are among five traumatized lions rescued from the war zone in Ukraine who are settling into a new home in England after an international effort to bring them to safety.

These felines are refugees of war. Five lions that lived in Ukraine were successfully relocated to the Big Cat Sanctuary in England. The animals were reportedly part of the illegal wildlife trade and they were all abandoned or neglected since Russia invaded the country three years ago.