Four years on: Medpresso stands with Ukraine

When we first wrote about the war in 2022, we hoped our next update would be about peace. More than four and a half years later, Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine goes on, and so does our support for Ukraine's struggle for freedom and independence. For us this has never been a distant headline. We see it in the morning news, in the colleagues who work through air-raid alerts and blackouts, and in the doctors who keep treating patients in hospitals under fire.

Education that does not stop

War disrupts medical training as much as it disrupts care. Specialists are pulled into trauma work, courses are cancelled, and learning gets pushed aside by survival. Our answer has been to keep doing what we do best: bringing high-quality, evidence-based medical education to Ukrainian clinicians, in their own language.

Today our lectures, modules, webinars, guideline overviews and article reviews are available in Ukrainian, alongside English, Spanish and Russian. We are proud to work with partners who share this goal:

• SONA Global Academy, which offers free, multilingual surgical education taught by Harvard-affiliated faculty to clinicians in resource-limited and conflict-affected settings;
• IAGG (International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics), with free webinars in Ukrainian and a growing lecture series on geriatric care and healthy ageing.

Every course completed by a doctor in Kharkiv, Dnipro or Lviv is a small act of resistance. It shows that Ukrainian medicine keeps growing even now.

Standing with those who cannot speak for themselves

Supporting Ukraine also means not looking away from the most defenceless victims of the war. We support the mission of Animal Rescue Kharkiv (ARK), a volunteer team that goes into frontline towns to evacuate animals left behind in shelled homes and empty streets. Last year we celebrated ARK's 10th anniversary together with them, and our support has not wavered since.

ARK has now rescued more than 35,000 animals. It cares for around 1,800 animals every day, many of them at its Peace Sanctuary, a former dairy farm turned refuge with its own veterinary clinic. The work is extremely dangerous. In September 2026 a drone struck a rescue vehicle and injured two volunteers, yet the team still brought 30 dogs, puppies and cats to safety. In October 2026 ARK volunteer Jesse Adams, who had come from Canada to help, was killed by a drone while evacuating animals near Kramatorsk. We honour his memory and the courage of everyone who keeps going back.

If you would like to help, you can learn more and donate at animalrescuekharkiv.org.

We stay with Ukraine

Scientific progress, justice, dignity and freedom remain the values we stand for and promote on our platform. We thank every doctor, volunteer and partner who keeps working through these years. Ukraine will prevail, and justice will prevail.