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Updated:23/05/2022 02:40h
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On March 31, the Ukrainian researcher Andriy Kravchenko gave a kyiv hospital his invention: a topical coagulant that stops bleeding long enough for a doctor to reach the wounded. In a war context, this drug can mean the difference between life and death for a soldier. “He dreamed that he would appear in the first aid kit of all Ukrainian soldiers,” he told ‘Science’ magazine. Mariia Galaburda, a senior researcher at the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, where Kravchenko worked. Three days later, the 41-year-old chemist, who had volunteered for the Ukrainian Defense Forces, died after his car exploded by a landmine.
This is one of the stories among the thousands of tragedies that are happening day after day in Ukraine, including volunteer enlisted scientists like Kravchenko. the of Vasyl Kladkoan X-ray crystallographer at the VE Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics is another: He was trapped in Vorzel, a northwestern suburb of kyiv, and where he was shot in cold blood, his body left in the street. Oleksandr Korsuninorganic chemist from VN Karazin Kharkiv National University, and Yulia Zdanovska, a promising mathematics student at Taras Shevchenko National University in kyiv were killed by bombs in Kharkiv. And the list goes on.
“My contacts in the laboratory are alive,” he explains to ABC German Orizaola, a researcher at the Joint Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Oviedo and who has been campaigning in Chernobyl since 2016. “Some have managed to escape and are relatively safe, but there are those who tell me that they hear the bombs falling constantly.” One of his colleagues with whom just before the conflict he was debating at length about genetics, now tells him that his life passes between dangerous trips distributing medicines and making Molotov cocktails, resting in a basement. «Another Ukrainian colleague writes every day on his Facebook ‘Good morning, world’, so that we know that he is well. The human drama is the saddest part of all this.
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