Zubkov is being transported to a hospital in Simferopol after being attacked by a lion.

Oleg Zubkov, director of the Crimean lion park "Taigan", is transported to the N.A. Semashko Hospital in Simferopol after being attacked by a lion. The relevant footage appeared at the disposal of Izvestia on June 23.

The footage shows Zubkov being taken unconscious from the hospital on a gurney and loaded into an ambulance.

Earlier, the chief thoracic surgeon of Crimea, Andrei Doroshenko, said that the operation of the park director was carried out for three hours, Zubkov's condition was stabilized.

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The predator's attack on the director of the Taigan Park became known on June 22. The head of the zoo in Mariupol, Savely Vashura, a colleague of the victim, noted that Zubkov always communicated with predators as with small children. Later it became known that Zubkov was operated on and left until morning in the Belgorod Central Regional Hospital.