Mr Patil, who is 42 and an Ukrainian citizen since 2016, bought the animals from a zoo in the capital, Kyiv, nearly two years ago. The male cat is a 24-month-old “lepjag”, a rare hybrid of a male leopard and a female jaguar, while the female, a black panther, is 14 months old.
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