Due to the fact that Russia’s launched a large-scale war against Ukraine, the sovereign democratic state of Europe
Resolution by Lithuanian Scientific Society
Vilnius, 2022-02-24
The Lithuanian Scientific Society (LSS) considers Russia’s military actions launched today in the European sovereign democratic state of Ukraine to be a crime against humanity. It is obvious, sad and unjustifiable that scientific knowledge and the latest technologies are being used in this case to conquer other nations and kill people. Peace in Europe that lasted for eight decades, has been disrupted by military campaigns of Putin‘s regime today in early morning February 24th, 2022. Putin’s regime has invaded the lives of peaceful people, while at the same time threatening the world not even to try stopping the war crimes it has begun, by openly threatening to use nuclear weapons as well.
The LSS therefore calls the world’s scientists to work together and focus to bring the war in Ukraine to the end immediately and:
– use your institutional and personal contacts with scientists working in the aggressor’s country to provide them with objective information and to search for ways to end the war in Europe immediately. No scientific institution or scientist should be involved in crimes against humanity and peace. It is a sacred duty of scientists not to cooperate with the structures that planned and launched military campaigns. Scientists are to contribute actively to the restraint of the regime that started the war in Europe. The responsible persons have to be taken to responsibility for the bloody military campaign;
– provide full support to fellow Ukrainian scientists in this tragic situation, helping them to withstand the damage caused by the aggressor’s actions;
– stop the flow of scientific knowledge, state-of-the-art technology and innovations that can be applied to military infrastructure and operations to the aggressor state until the end of the war in Ukraine and the withdrawal of aggressor troops from Ukrainia’s territory.
LSS addresses the world leaders to:
– immediately review and suspend all economic projects with Russia that could be used to support the power of the Putin’s regime;
– use all possible political, economic and other powers to stop the war in Ukraine.
The LSS states that Putin’s unstoppable regime will not only continue its military actions against Ukraine, but may extend it to other European countries. We therefore call on all the people of the democratic world to contribute to the support of the Ukrainian people, realizing that Ukraine defends democratic values and its sovereignty, and also protects us all from aggression.
Chairman of the Lithuanian Scientific Society prof. dr. Dalius Serafinas