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The MIT-Ukraine program works to leverage the Institute’s expertise and resouces to help a country devastated by war. Students, faculty, and staff are working with those who have been displaced by the invasion, inside and outside the country.

Anton Vlaschenko often hears shelling outside his office in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, not far from the front lines of the war. He sometimes even sees smoke rising from Russian tanks hit by missiles.

Anton Vlaschenko often hears shelling outside his office in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, not far from the front lines of the war. He sometimes even sees smoke rising from Russian tanks hit by missiles.

Anton Vlaschenko often hears shelling outside his office in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, not far from the front lines of the war. He sometimes even sees smoke rising from Russian tanks hit by missiles. But the 40-year-old zoologist continues his work, dissecting and labeling bat tissue, as he probes the disease ecology of the…

"Our staying in Ukraine, our continuing to work — it’s some kind of resistance of Russian invasion."

Ukrainian scientists and universities face extraordinary challenges as the Russian invasion continues.