Maryna Dzuh and Svitlana Omelchuk are here as part of a global effort to protect Ukrainian science as the war with Russia grinds on.
When the plane landed in Australia from Poland, it held just two young Ukrainian scientists – Maryna Dzuh and Svitlana Omelchuk.Ukrainian agricultural scientists Svitlana Omelchuk and Maryna Dzuh at Hyde Park in Sydney, this week.But their male colleagues had been barred from leaving Ukraine, which was in a state of full mobilisation and couldn’t afford to lose any fighting-aged men.
In August last year, Russian troops fired missiles at Kharkiv National University, a campus with no known military value. It– containing many volumes printed in the 1500s – and the photonics laboratory. Researchers picked microscopes out of the rubble. Dzuh, 25, is a molecular biologist at the Ukrainian Scientific Institute of Plant Breeding in Kyiv. Omelchuk also works there as a plant breeder.“They are caught up in something they have no control over. And it threatens to overrun them,” Kirkegaard said
There are no direct flights from Kiev to Australia: “Only missiles fly in the air, not planes,” she said.
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