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It is part of the human condition that adversities which affect people close to us have stronger emotional effects – and release greater energies – than traumas happening to those we are less immediately connected with. This means that it is justifiable that a scientific publication which calls itself the “European Journal of Epilepsy” should respond to a war in a European country, especially when this war does not only pose an immediate threat to the lives of people with epilepsy as well as informal and professional care givers of people with epilepsy, readers and contributors to this journal, but also to the fundamental rights of free speech and access to unbiassed information which underpin scientific exchange and progress.