Russian troops seized the Institute of Animal Husbandry “Askania-Nova”

As the National Police of Ukraine reported, Russian troops seized the Askania-Nova Animal Husbandry Institute in the temporarily occupied Kherson region.

“The institute is a powerful scientific research center of southern Ukraine for the problems of animal husbandry, where new highly productive breeds of farm animals have been bred for centuries. Now the Russians invaded there, whose goal is to loot the institute and enrich themselves at the expense of the achievements of scientists and researchers. The majority of scientists did not volunteer to cooperate with the occupiers,” the message reads.