Dear colleagues! Dear friends!

We, teachers and students of the Kharkov National Medical University, one of the oldest higher medical schools of the former Soviet Union, citizens of 75 countries of the world, express our concern in connection with the tension that has recently arisen in relations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

We address to our colleagues – health-care workers who are citizens of Russia, Ukraine and other countries.

We are representatives of the most humane profession in the world. We always combine and will combine in the future our efforts to establish close friendly, professional, and scientific relations and interpersonal relationships that have been developed throughout many years. These relationships are of great value for us and we are obliged to keep them for future generations.

Health-care workers better than others understand possible consequences, problems and human suffering to which coercion of far-fetched political issues can lead.

We are sure that today in Ukraine we don’t have situation that demands military confrontation with Russia. Any contradictions have to be resolved through peace negotiations.