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An open letter from Ukraine's embryologists

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An open letter from Ukraine's embryologists

Mar 15, 2022
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Ukraine’s embryologists are asking the producers of culture media and consumables used in assisted reproduction to “postpone the supply of your products to the Russian Federation until it has stopped the war against Ukraine and withdrawn all its troops…”

Read the full letter below.

An open letter from Ukrainian embryologists to producers of media and consumables for ART

On February 24, the Russian Federation launched an open war against Ukraine, unprovoked and unfounded.

For more than a week, the Russian military has been firing unguided MLRS missiles and dropping bombs on maternity hospitals, hospitals, kindergartens, homes, power plants and other civilian infrastructure, causing irreparable human casualties and significant damage. Among the dead are many women and children, and the survivors are forced to live in constant fear of death, leave their homes, become refugees.

Such events have already taken place in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, but the reaction of the world community was insufficient: it was allowed to feed the aggressive appetites of the Russian Federation. Having accumulated strength, the Russian Federation attacked, neglecting all, without exception, the values ​​of the civilized world, and most importantly - the value of human life.

From open sources you can see the consequences of this dishonest, insidious war: scorched ruins, cluttered roads with mutilated equipment, bloodied civilians, weeping over the bodies of their loved ones.

From open sources you can hear the consequences of this devastating, ruthless war: the explosions of cruise missiles, the roar of houses that are collapsing, hiding frightened citizens, moans and cries of the wounded.

You should be aware that there are other losses, invisible to the camera lens, that can not be captured by the most sensitive microphone - unborn children.

Since the beginning of the war, clinics of reproductive medicine in major cities of Ukraine have closed their doors to patients, cancelled all cycles of stimulation, embryo transfers. Embryos of any stage of development and oocytes were vitrified.

Aggressive military action by the Russian Federation jeopardized the timely delivery of liquid nitrogen to our cryobanks, which could not be evacuated. Hundreds of thousands of human embryos and gametes of tens of thousands of patients are under constant threat of destruction.

In addition, chronic stress, separation from partners and lack of appropriate conditions and confidence in the future to encourage Ukrainian women who are planning a pregnancy to postpone it indefinitely. In 2014, after the start of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, we have already seen an abnormal jump in stillbirths and spontaneous abortions, so we have reason to believe that 2022 will be accompanied by the same picture.

The Russian army, having ordered the destruction of civilians, is killing them not only with weapons but also with actions that make our work impossible.

Throughout its history, the Russian Federation has enjoyed benefits that have been developed and sold abroad, mostly in the Western world, but has failed to create its

own competitive products, goods and services. However, this never prevented her from treating the values ​​and ideas of the Western World with disrespect and contempt, without ceasing to fan the flames of anti-Western rhetoric and propaganda. In contrast, Ukraine loudly and clearly stated its pro-European course during the Revolution of Dignity.

We consider it unfair to be in unequal conditions with our Russian colleagues, embryologists, who continue to work calmly in safety and comfort. The reality, unfortunately, is that the result of their work is not the emergence of a new life, but the strengthening of the army for future wars.

We urge you to postpone the supply of your products to the Russian Federation until it has stopped the war against Ukraine and withdrawn all its troops outside the internationally recognized borders of our sovereign state.

We hope and count on your determination.

Sincerely,
Embryologists of Ukraine:

Alina Shtefan, medical geneticist, Dnipro

Andrii Lahutin, embryologist, Fertility Clinic Americas, Cancun, Mexico

Andriy Kushnir, embryologist, Clinic of Professor Stefan Khmil, Ukraine, Lviv

Anfisa Kucherenko, embryologist, Innomed, Vinnitsa

Avdieieva Kateryna, embryologist, clinic Milartis, Kharkiv

Aza Zyuzyun, embryologist miniivf, Kyiv

Birol Aydin, lab director, IVMED clinic, Kyiv

Dariia Smyshliaieva, embryologist, Clinic of the reproductive medicine "Nadiya Odesa"

Darya Hudkova, embryologist, IVMED clinic, Kyiv

Galyna Botsiura, embryologist, Victoria clinic, Kyiv

Hanna Bondarenko, embryologist, Clinic of the reproductive medicine "Nadiya Odesa"

Hanna Lazarenko, embryologist, MC “Academium”, Odesa

Hudz Iehor, embryologist, Mirum Clinic, Kyiv

Illia Brusianskyi, embryologist, Mother and Child, Kyiv

Irina Zaitseva, embryologist, Regional Center for Reproductive Medicine, Rivne

Iryna Chemiokina, embryologist, Medical center infertility treatment, Chernivty

Iryna Kedrun, embryologist, Medical Center "Mother and Child", Lviv

Iryna Mykhailiuk, embryologist Medical Centr Bogolyuby, Lutsk

Iryna Polishchuk, embryologist, Kyiv

Iryna Valakh, embryologist, director of LTD «REPROGEN», Odesa

Ivanna Bodnar, embryologist, Medicover Ukraine, Lviv

Juliana Gusar, embryologist, Victoria clinic, Kyiv

Kateryna Diadiuk, embryologist, " IVF-Laboratory" clinic, Kyiv

Kateryna Lytvynyuk, embryologist, Medical Centr Bogolyuby, Lutsk

Kateryna Stanchak, embryologist, Clinic of prof. Stefan Khmil, Lviv

Lada Diachenko, embryologist, Clinic of reproductive medicine "Nadiya", Kyiv

Lazar Kulia, sperm laboratory assistant, Clinic of the reproductive medicine "Nadiya  Odesa"

Lidiia Dubovtseva, embryologist, Institute for planning family, Kyiv

Liubomyr Savchuk, Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Kyiv

Liudmyla Davydiuk, embryologist, Medical Centr Bogolyuby, Lutsk

Lyudmila Panus, embryologist, Clinic of Reproductive Medicine “Nadiya”, Kyiv

Lyudmila Semenyuk, Head of the embryology department, Clinic of Reproductive  Medicine “Nadiya”, Kyiv

Mariana Vitushynska, Head of the Department of Embryology, "Polimedical", Lviv

Mariia Sykuta, embryologist, Medical Reproductive Health Centre 'Damiia', Ivano- Frankivsk

Mаryna Kovalenko, embryologist, Medical Center "Medical Plaza", "Avrora IVF", Dnipro

Mykola Yaroshyk, embryologist, Mother and child clinic, Kyiv

Nadiiy Mykhailenko, Mother and Child, Kyiv

Natalia Melnyk, Head of the embryology department, Reproductive Genetics Clinic Victoria, Kyiv

Natalia Riasna, embryologist, Medical Center “Intereco”, Kyiv

Nataliia Rozhak, embryologist, Medicover Ukraine, Lviv

Nina Glushchenko, embryologist, Art Genetics, Kiyv

Oksana Lyzohub, embryologist, IVMED, Kyiv

Oksana Petrenko, embryologist, Medical Center "Mother and child", Kyiv

Oleksandr Ignatov, embryologist, GC-IVF, Kharkiv

Oleksandr Tkachenko, embryologist, Lita clinic, Kyiv

Oleksii Markovskyi, embryologist, Reproductive clinic Lita, Kyiv

Oleksii Tishchenko, embryologist, prof.Feskov Clinic, Kharkiv

Oleksiy Balva, embryologist, Oxford Medical, Kyiv

Oleksiy Pravdyuk, embryologist, GC-IVF, Kharkiv

Olena Dubova, embryologist, Fertility clinic “Alice”, Kyiv

Olena Horlakova, embryologist, Isida clinic, Kyiv

Olena Novikova, Oxford Medical clinic

Olena Shamrai, embryologist, Kyiv city maternity hospital number 3

Olena Somova, PhD, Head of ART Laboratory "Sana-Med (Clinic of Professor Feskov)", Kharkiv

Olga Borovik, embryology laboratory assistant, Clinic of Reproductive Medicine “Nadiya”, Kyiv

Olga Chaplia, PhD, embryologist, Yale Fertility Center, Orange, USA

Olga Guzyk, embryologist, ISIDA-IVF

Olga Maliuta, embryologist, IVMED, Kyiv

Olga Perepelytsia, embryologist, Clinic of the reproductive medicine "Nadiya Odesa"

Olga Tkachenko, embryologist, Clinic of Reproductive Medicine “Nadiya”, Kyiv

Olga Zinkina, embryologist, Medical Center "Mother and Child", Kyiv

Pavlo Mazur, embryologist, Clinic of Reproductive Medicine “Nadiya”, Kyiv

Polina Smiian, embryologist, IVMED clinic, Kyiv

Roksolana Khatsko, embryologist, Medicover, Lviv

Svetlana Zudova, embryologist, Isida IVF, Kyiv

Svitlana Melnychuk, embryologist, Reproductive center Blagodar, Rivne

Taisiia Kozak, embryologist, Oxford Medical clinic, Kyiv

Taras Vitak, embryologist, Medicover Ukraine, Lviv

Tetiana Dubko, embryologist, Clinic of the reproductive medicine "Nadiya Odesa"

Tetiana Pischana, embryologist, IVMED, Kyiv

Tetyana Shestakova, embryologist, Victoria clinic, Kyiv

Valentyn Didkivskyi, Head of the embryology department, Mirum Clinic, Kyiv

Valerii Tokarev, embryologist, Beta Plus Fertility Clinic

Valetyna Yakymets, embryologist, " IVF-Laboratory" clinic, Kyiv

Victoria Scherbakova, embryology laboratory assistant, Clinic of Reproductive Medicine “Nadiya”, Kyiv

Viktor Nahornyi, embryologist, Kyiv

Viktoria Kubrak, embryologist, Medical Center “Intereco”, Kyiv

Viktoriia Fedorchuk, embryologist, Clinic of the reproductive medicine "Nadiya Odesa"

Viktoriia Tischenko, embryologist, Clinic of Reproductive Medicine “Nadiya”, Kyiv

Volodymyr Babiy, embryologist, Medicover Ukraine, Lviv

Volodymyr Boretskyi, embryologist, Parens, Lviv

Yaroslav Hrubskyi, embryologist, head of embryology department, "Alternatyva" clinic, Lviv

Yaroslava Misyura, embryologist, Medicover Ukraine, Lviv

Yaroslava Petrenko, embryologist, Clinic of Reproductive Medicine “Nadiya”, Kyiv

Yevgeniya Ulayeva, embryologist, Clinic of Reproductive Medicine “Nadiya”, Kyiv

Yulia Balva, embryologist, mather and child Kyiv

Yuliia Solonets, embryologist, Isida clinic, Kyiv

Yuliia Zin, embryologist, Centre of Human Reproduction "Sana-Med", Kyiv

Yuliya Kremenska, embryologist, Kyiv

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