The war has turned everyone's life upside down in Ukraine, but some have yet to realize the reality of what is happening to them.
At the Pavlovsk Psychiatric Hospital, more than 1,000 people are waiting for this madness to end.
Many have been relocated from other conflict-affected areas, and the facility is overcrowded, and some drugs, such as antidepressants and neuroleptics, are lacking.
But doctors say they are coping – so far:
On our social networks, we publish lists of what we need - such as diapers, water, etc. And many initiative volunteer organizations help us. Some restaurants send food. Someone can send us bread, someone a truck full of apples.
Many staff moved to the hospital with their families to stay with their patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Volunteers also work here. One of them says:
My colleague and I shaved about 100 people. And today the hair has grown back, and we cleaned. For me, this is a kind of help, a prayer for Ukraine. I remember St. Francis washing people, eating with them… Now I try to pray with every part of my body.
To the sound of air-raid sirens, the hospital's director, Vyacheslav Mishiev, shows us the territory of a medical facility where about 1,300 people were killed by German soldiers during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. They shot more than 750 patients and doctors who refused to leave their wards. The rest were gassed.
We have devoted so much time to the moral evaluation of wars - the First World War, the Second World War - so many moral and moral words have been said that "we must not allow, we must overcome, we must get better." As an individual, I come to the conclusion that, unfortunately, man, and humanity, is not getting better. History repeats itself, time passes - repeats, repeats. And it's bitter. I would like to be educated, a moral person appeared. High ideas of man. A decent man. Well, unfortunately, this is not happening, but we do not lose hope. Probably, someday it will happen, in another life, in other incarnations, under other conditions.
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