At least 147 Ukrainian scientists have died during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Such data were made public at the international BioGeNext conference in Kyiv, reports the publication Censor.NET.
It is noted that this list includes not only those scientists and postgraduates who went to the front, but also those who died in the rear or in the occupied territories. In particular:
- On March 1, near Kiev, the chief engineer of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Maksym Pavlenko, who had joined the TRO, died;
- On July 21, 2022, a young scientist, leading engineer of the IMBG biomedical chemistry department, Vasily Vdovin, who fought as part of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade, died in Donbass;
- Bizhan Sharopov, biophysicist and popularizer of science, scientist at the Bogomolets Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who fought in the ranks of volunteer battalions back in 2014-2015 and went to the front again in 2022, was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine. He died in battles in the Kharkiv region – from April 2022 he was considered missing in action, until in January 2023, thanks to a number of examinations, his death was confirmed;
- On March 8, 2022, candidate of technical sciences Yulia Vaschenko died – the occupiers shot her and her husband in a car near Brovary;
- in Mariupol in March 2022, Natalia Loskutova, associate professor of the Department of German and French Philology at Mariupol State University, died on the spot from shrapnel wounds;
- During a missile attack on the capital in early 2024, Doctor of Biological Sciences, recently a professor of the Department of Ecology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Lyudmila Shevtsova, died.
The martyrology of the fallen scientists is compiled by a group of activists who founded the project “Ukrainian scientists at war. UA Scientists at War”. Scientists and people on social networks help collect data on the dead.
First of all, we set ourselves the task of assessing the losses quantitatively, comparing them with the losses of Ukrainian science as a result of wars and repressions in the 20th century, – noted one of the project participants, head of the biotechnology department of the Kyiv Aviation Institute, scientific editor of the portal “My Science” Alexey Boldyrev.
Source: “Censor.NET”
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