International relations of the department and connections with scientists of Western countries are quite widespread. Thus, in September 2022, the professor of the Lytvynenko department Oleksandr Mykolayovych took part in the international conference “The first internationally validated European guidelines meeting on minimally invasive pancreatic surgery”, Brescia, Italy, September 29-30, 2022. Oleksandr Mykolayovych gave a speech “Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy with spleen preservation”!