{"id":6698,"date":"2026-09-29T22:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2026-09-29T22:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:25:02","slug":"statement-support-nas-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/declarations\/statement-support-nas-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of the Russian-American Science Association in Support of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We, the members of the Russian-American Science Association (RASA), strongly condemn the drone attack on the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine which caused serious damage and, according to reports, resulted in casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even against the background of the years-long and devastating war, an attack on a national academy of sciences is particularly horrifying. We express our solidarity with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and with our Ukrainian colleagues, and we extend our deepest condolences to the families and colleagues of those who were killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientific institutions are part of the shared heritage of humanity. They are places where knowledge is created, preserved, and transmitted across generations and across national borders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The international scientific community has a responsibility to uphold the principles of protecting human life, scientific freedom, international cooperation, and respect for institutions devoted to the pursuit of knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We reaffirm our commitment to the protection of science as a sphere of international cooperation and human progress, even in times of war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, the members of the Russian-American Science Association (RASA), strongly condemn the drone attack on the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine which caused serious damage and, according to reports, resulted in casualties. Even&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":6343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-declarations","category-news"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ru","en"],"languages":{"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}