Pavlo Bazilinskyy got out just in time. In February, the scientist was visiting family in Ukraine and recovering from a nasty case of COVID-19 before starting a new job at the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
With the threat of war looming, Bazilinskyy moved his mother from Chernihiv, a city north of the capital Kyiv, to the western part of the country.
“I didn’t really think the war would start, but I knew the chances weren’t zero,” he says. A few days later, on Feb. 24, Russia invaded Ukraine. Read more in Medscape.