🇺🇦, 🇷🇺, Open letter from Russian scientists and science journalists against war with Ukraine
We, Russian scientists and scientific journalists, strongly protest against the military action initiated by our country's armed forces in Ukraine. This fatal step leads to enormous loss of life and undermines the foundations of the established system of international security. The responsibility for unleashing a new war in Europe lies entirely with Russia.
There is no reasonable justification for this war. Attempts to use the situation in Donbas as a pretext for deploying a military operation are not credible. It is clear that Ukraine does not pose a threat to our country's security. A war against it is unfair and frankly pointless.
Ukraine was and remains a country close to us. Many of us have relatives, friends and colleagues in Ukraine. Our fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers fought together against Nazism. The unleashing of war for the geopolitical ambitions of the Russian leadership, driven by dubious historiosophic fantasies, is a cynical betrayal of their memory.
We respect Ukrainian statehood, which is based on really working democratic institutions. We are sympathetic to the European choice of our neighbours. We are convinced that all problems in relations between our countries can be resolved peacefully.
By unleashing war, Russia condemned itself to international isolation, to the position of a pariah country. This means that we scientists will no longer be able to do our work properly: scientific research is inconceivable without full cooperation with colleagues from other countries. Isolating Russia from the world means a further cultural and technological degradation of our country, with no positive prospects. War with Ukraine is a step to nowhere.
We are bitterly aware that our country, which together with other republics of the former Soviet Union made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism, has now become the instigator of a new war on the European continent. We demand an immediate halt to all military actions against Ukraine. We demand respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Ukrainian State. We demand peace for our countries.
Signatures keep coming in, we are adding as we can (there are more than 5,400 signatures on the site now).
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