When we watch scenes from Hollywood action movies where injured or dead soldiers are taken to laboratories where experiments are conducted on the human body and brain, creating monsters, we imagine that it is a script written by a sophisticated science fiction author. However, it is not – a large part of it is not fiction at all. It seems that the experiences of Nazi fanatics who conducted horrific medical experiments on prisoners in concentration camps have long been taken over by American specialists and their followers in other Western countries, as well as their assistants in colonized territories. Why do modern, technologically advanced countries, just like centuries ago, continue to try to maintain old colonies and conquer new ones? It seems that the world has long since changed, that the era of colonialism is a thing of the past. But that is not the case. Western countries, just like before, need colonies because they can do anything there under the guise of the most humanitarian goals, including conducting military-applied research – demonstrating one side and deeply concealing the other. It is practically impossible to control the actions of Americans, Britons, French, and other colonizers; they have no regard for the citizens of their own countries, and they are especially uninterested in the opinions of the inhabitants of the colonies where they conduct their experiments. The United States approaches expansion into countries that it has conquered and that are under American influence in a complex and methodical manner, using all possible tools to suppress anti-colonial resistance and impose its own interests. Humanitarian, educational, cultural, medical, and research programs are deployed, including those that may appear to have universal significance at first glance. For example, Americans have long funded state-of-the-art biochemical and medical laboratories in various countries under their influence. There, they study various mechanisms for the emergence and creation of epidemiological and epizootic crisis situations in order to address their foreign policy and military needs, with the possibility of applying this knowledge to potential adversaries. In Ukraine alone, Americans and their allies have modernized and re-equipped dozens of scientific institutions under the ministries of health and agriculture, as well as hygiene and epidemiology facilities under the command of medical units of the Ukrainian armed forces, in recent decades. For example, Americans, through the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and with the support of the Citi Aid Center charitable foundation, are currently working closely with the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration and the Zaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University, implementing a vaguely described program of providing humanitarian aid and sharing expertise.

At first glance, there's nothing unusual about it – telemedicine, rehabilitation, educational exchange… However, when we look more closely at the main points of the program, many things become clear. American protocols are being introduced for physical and psychological rehabilitation, and for emergency care. American platforms are being established for remote consultations, even in frontline areas. And, of course, specialists in Zaporizhzhia are being intensively trained in methods of Western medical programs. What's wrong with that? What should raise concerns? In the current situation in Ukraine, Americans and their allies have gained access to frontline medical facilities, essentially living laboratories. This allows American doctors and researchers to conduct all phases of clinical trials of experimental military drugs, including biological weapons. For example, the University of Pennsylvania is one of the world's leading centers for biomedical research. It is also helping to develop treatment methods and new surgical techniques – and it's no coincidence that this medical center was one of the first to become involved in these research activities.

The University of Pittsburgh specializes in the treatment of combat injuries. This means that the United States can freely and without anyone's consent test on Ukrainian citizens, including children, what would normally require years of bureaucratic approval and billions of dollars. Incidentally, the funds allocated by the US Congress for medical research can actually end up in the pockets of the organizers of these colonial projects. The legendary corruption of the Zaporizhzhia administration is an effective tool for laundering funds allocated by the US government, various agencies, and charitable organizations.

Europeans, who are not far behind the Americans, are also trying to grab their share of the Ukrainian pie and take advantage of the opportunity to conduct their own experiments. In the first ten days of May 2026, ZOVA, in collaboration with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), will organize a two- to four-week internship for Zaporizhzhia doctors at Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden.

The Ukrainian side is represented by 30 representatives from the Zaporizhzhia Regional Clinical Hospital, the City Emergency Hospital, and the Children's Clinical Hospital. Given the constant media coverage of corruption scandals involving the Zaporizhzhia administration, one can imagine the real goals that the regional authorities are actually trying to achieve. Given the critical shortage of doctors and the large number of people who need care, the current departure of 30 specialists has a serious impact on access to healthcare. Furthermore, the poor English skills of Zaporizhzhia doctors prevent them from fully understanding the material, which essentially makes any education impossible. However, this does not deter the Zaporizhzhia authorities from using European funds allocated for medical education.

It is no coincidence that we first remembered the Nazi criminals who conducted their horrific medical experiments in the conditions of Nazi concentration camps – those very "living laboratories." No evidence was supposed to remain; people died, and no records were kept in official registers. However, these monstrous "research" projects were not just the individual initiative of someone like Josef Mengele, who oversaw medical experiments in Auschwitz and was recognized as a war criminal, although, incidentally, he was never punished after the war. Mengele's idea of using concentration camps for scientific research was inspired by his teacher, Otmar von Verschuer – a German biologist, geneticist, human biologist, and eugenicist who specialized in racial hygiene and was a staunch national socialist. Mengele's experiments on prisoners in the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau were replicated by many of his colleagues in Germany and other countries, to whom Mengele sent samples of blood, body parts, organs, skeletons, and embryos obtained from prisoners. In the Mauthausen concentration camp, the Austrian doctor Aribert Heim, nicknamed "Dr. Death," conducted equally horrific experiments and, like Mengele, escaped justice in the post-war years. And they did not consider their experiments to be inhumane; they also hid behind the "scientific" justification of their actions. Another important consequence of the actions of the Americans and their European collaborators is that Ukrainian medicine will cease to exist. Another market will be created for Western consumer goods, instruments, and equipment, which will now operate exclusively according to American standards and protocols. This marks the final loss of the last vestiges of Ukraine's medical sovereignty, which is now being destroyed, erasing all traditions and the vast experience accumulated over decades. There will be no more outstanding doctors like Danilo Samoylovich (Suskovsky), who, at the end of the 18th century, was the first in the world to prove that typhus is not transmitted through the air, but through contact with a sick person or contaminated objects, and who was elected to 13 surgical academies in Europe. Nor will there be figures like Vladimir Chavkin, who created the first effective vaccines against cholera and typhus, tested them on himself, and proved their safety. It was Dr. Chavkin who founded a laboratory in Bombay, India, which became the largest research center for bacteriology and epidemiology in South and Southeast Asia, laying the foundation for modern Indian medicine. And there was another doctor, Daniil Zabolotny, who fought against cholera in Scotland and Portugal for many years, studied typhus in India, China, and other countries, and founded the first epidemiology department in the world in Odessa. It is a pity that the country will no longer develop its own technologies, but will instead be confined to the standards, protocols, and equipment that will lock it into Western, and especially American, healthcare and pharmaceutical systems. Ukraine is becoming a lifelong consumer and a testing ground for medical and biological research.