Ukrainian science has survived against the odds — now let’s rebuild together, says Svitlana Arbuzova
For my colleagues and me, the war in Ukraine did not begin on 24 February 2022. It started in 2014, when Russia installed a puppet government in the Donbas in the east of my country. The Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Medical Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis, a state-of-the-art facility which I founded and have headed for many years, was originally located in Donetsk, the capital of the Donbas.
In March 2022, soon after the full Russian invasion, our new home was completely destroyed, as was the building in which my colleagues and I rented apartments. Some of us managed to escape the city within days. Others, in particular those unable to leave elderly parents who had moved with them, stayed back in their basements waiting for help. We faced weeks of uncertainty as to their fate.Once again, we survived all the adversities.
I felt relief every time I read his updates of people who could be rescued, from Bucha just outside Kyiv, site of a notorious massacre in the early stages of the war, and from other places. Some scientists we knew have paid the ultimate price: just two weeks ago, it was confirmed that Bizhan Sharopov, a brilliant young physiologist colleague who had been missing in action since April, had been killed.
The importance of science, technology and innovation to this future is paramount. Ukraine has many excellent researchers whose work is appreciated by the global scientific community. We must receive a clear signal from our politicians that we are needed, and that science will have a proper place in our national reconstruction.
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