“…However, those expectations were not met, and government spending on science remained low and was used inefficiently (Schiermeier, 2016), researchers' institutions were not modernized, and low salaries did not inspire the emergence of young scientists (Schiermeier, 2019). Moreover, Ukraine lost important scientific facilities in Crimea after its annexation by Russia in 2014 (Nazarovets, 2018), and about 12,000 scientists were forced to emigrate internally from parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts occupied by pro‐Russian militants, having to adapt to new living and working conditions (Oleksiyenko et al, 2020; Schiermeier, 2016).…”