b"The loss of infrastructure was the most painful problem as this directly affects the ability to provide quality education and conduct scientific activities. STEPS OF RELOCATIONStarting in 2022, during a year of full-scale war, TSATUs admin-istration, supervisory board, teachers, and students took incredible steps to preserve the university and its proper functioning even during the occupation. It was the peoplethe university communitythat proved to be the cores that allowed us to hold our ground and continue working. The dedication of many teachers, students, and staff of the university was impressive. Many of them made a difficult decision to leave their homes and leave Melitopol, refusing to accept the occupation.At the risk of life, the university's staff managed to remove the universitys servers, disk drives, seals, and official documents. The 63-mile route from Melitopol to Zaporizhzhia lay through 20 occupational checkpoints. Since then, almost all problems related to cyber security have been resolved. With support, 110 laptops, 13 multifunctional devices and four servers were purchased for the continuous opera-tion of university sites and online training. We needed to start from scratch but after four months we relaunched the official website of TSATU.OUR STUDENTSAfter the shelling between February 24-28, 2022, TSATU students who lived in the dormitories found themselves in a very difficult situation. They had no food because the shops had been looted. The students had no cash to buy food, as banks were closed since the first day of the war. Most of the students were on internships at compa- Destroyed buildings of the TSATU university, where some students have died.nies in different cities of Ukraine, cut off from their families. Since May 27, 2022, all the dormitories were seized by the occupiers. All the students' personal belongings were destroyed, and the militarylaborators live in them. Currently, complete lawlessness and looting personnel moved in into students' rooms. continues in the city.Currently, a huge community of students and alumni of the university are fighting the aggressor in the hottest spots of the coun- SCIENCEtry or helping to solve issues on the front line and volunteering.The universitys scientific material base has been completely seized. In their turn, all of them make an invaluable contribution to theWe have lost 1,800 hectares of fields and 63 hectares of orchards preservation and existence of the Ukrainian nation. where elite cherry varieties were grown. Research equipment and We have lost some of our heroes. Two students were killed inmachinery from 12 laboratories were stolen, including from our a bombing of TSATU. Dmytro Mikulin, a graduate of TSATU,quality [control], food production, mushroom and quail cultivation, died in the battles near Bakhmut in March 2023. We will alwaysand wine laboratories, as well as our educational laboratory-cafe, remember those who fought for the independence of our countryand our irrigation system. Digital equipment that was used during and gave their lives for it.the field experiments (drones, video cameras, a database of research results for the last five years) was also stolen.FACULTY AND STAFF I would like to emphasize that the occupiers also stole 2.5 The teachers of TSATU spent the first weeks of the war in base- thousand tons of the grain crop and 150 tons of the elite cherry ments of the university. TSATU opened its bomb shelters to allcrop. The money [generated] from selling this harvest would have residents of Melitopol. At that time, grocery stores, pharmacies andbeen put back into developing our material base of the university. ATMs were looted. Residential buildings in the city were withoutAll these funds were used for the development and needs of the heating for three days at temperatures of -19.4C. After the shell- university, and, unfortunately, are currently in the hands of the ing, all teachers, and the student community, together with otheroccupiers. citizens, participated in dangerous rallies against the occupation. Between April and September 2022, the teachers made incred-ible efforts at filtration posts to get out of the occupied region: there were searches of their belongings, interrogations, checks of phones and laptops. Some of them spent the nights in an open field for fiveThis is an abbreviated version. To read the entire article, go to: days, waiting for their turn to leave at the filtration points. Theireuropean-seed.com/2023/08/10-steps-of-surviving-in-war-condi-homes have been illegally nationalized and now occupiers and col- tions/16ISEED WORLD EUROPEIEUROPEAN-SEED.COM"