Russian invaders shot famous Ukrainian scientists in cold blood, reports Science.

Academician Vasily Kladko, an X-ray crystallographer from the Institute of Semiconductor Physics named after. Lashkareva. He was killed in March in the suburbs of Kyiv.

In early April, a researcher at the Institute of Surface Chemistry named after. Chuiko Andrey Kravchenko.

A few days earlier, his team had delivered to hospitals the first batch of a drug he had spent years developing specifically for use on the battlefield: a topical coagulant that stops bleeding until a doctor reaches a wounded soldier..

“Andriy dreamed that this drug was in the first aid kit of every Ukrainian soldier,” says Maria Galaburda, a colleague of the deceased.. "

Here is an incomplete list of dead Ukrainian scientists, compiled by the journal Science.

Killed under shelling:.

Alexander Korsun, chemist,.

Oleg Amosov, economist,.

Julia Zdanovskaya, mathematician.

Scientist-teacher Yevgeny Khrykov and physicist Vasily Kladko were shot at point-blank range.

Chemist Andrei Kravchenko died in a land mine explosion.