By Luis de Vega (El País)
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Dismal, filthy and dilapidated, many Ukrainian buildings dating from the Soviet period still contain shelters in their basements. At the time, they were mandatory to protect against possible attacks. In one of these places, under a supermarket in Kharkiv, a surface of 60 square meters of immaculate white was entitled. An island of sparkling cleanliness in which nestles a revolutionary refrigerated bunker quite unique in the country. In strict compliance with the cold chain, it stores nearly six million euros of medicines, intended, almost entirely, for cancer patients. Despite the harshness of the war, these patients require their continued treatment. Rostislav Filippenko, a 32-year-old Spanish mathematician born in Ukraine, is the instigator of this initiative. The conflict surprised him, by chance, in his hometown, warm by the fire, at his grandparents' house, while he...
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