The impact of the invasion on both CERN and the Arctic Council, as well as many other scientific organisations around the world. It shows not only how important international collaborations are for doing science, but also their role in global diplomacy. Science is engaged in trying to understand the way that the universe works. And this can be the fundamental physics processes that occurred very early in the history of the universe. The sort of thing that CERN does to monitoring climate change in the in the Arctic or the Antarctic. These scientific topics of universal interest and universal importance.