View of the V.I. Vernadsky in Kyiv. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 2The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS) broke off cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), according to the resolution of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which was adopted on March 30 at a meeting of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. under martial law» defines the directions of international scientific activity of the NAS of Ukraine under martial law, including the termination of any form of cooperation between the NAS of Ukraine and Russian scientific organizations and Russian scientists and international scientific organizations that are actually under the control of Russia and reproduce Russian narratives», 
The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences urged scientists not to offend the authorities because of the situation in Ukraine. Also, the NAS of Ukraine withdrew from the International Association of Academies of Sciences, which, as noted, did not condemn the military operation of the Russian Federation. «The NAS of Ukraine broke off agreements on scientific and technical cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS ), the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research,» the resolution says. academies, sent a collective statement to the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences about their withdrawal from the foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Scholars talk about how to counter sanctions President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
