There is also a power outage in Lviv in western Ukraine and Russian rockets hit. A conversation with the biologist Yurij Salyha, who keeps research going even during the war.
The front line is over a thousand kilometers away, but the war can also be felt in Yuri Salyha’s research institute. The Institute of Animal Biology of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Ukraine is located in the west of the country, near the Polish border. Sometimes the power goes out, money is tight, and scientists are missing – because they have fled or gone to the front. According to a survey of more than 2,500 Ukrainian researchers, the country has lost about a fifth of its research capacity from before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. says a report in the specialist magazine Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. Over 17 percent of scientists have left research. Salyha and his team are actually researching how breeding, environment and food affect the health of farm animals. The war has now been going on for over 600 days. Since 2022, the director of the institute has also included a publication list Call for help to the international scientific community not to forget Ukraine.