It's a Mad Mad World

The city of Borodyanka is located in the northwest of Kyiv. In March 2022, the city was under Russian occupation. The Russians seized the local psycho-neurological boarding school, where about 600 patients and several employees lived. The manager, Marina, stayed with the patients and survived the occupation. People in the boarding school were left without water, food, electricity and heating. Russian snipers fired at the windows of the hospital and the patients were afraid to move. The building of the mental hospital from the blast waves constantly shook. Military reality burst into the measured life of patients in a psychiatric hospital. This negatively affected the condition of patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. Some have developed aggressive behavior. Others panicked, hiding under beds and in closets. Soldiers burst into the territory of the boarding school. The Russians set up their positions on the territory of the psychiatric hospital. They put machine guns and heavy weapons. Everyone in the building was forbidden to leave it, even in search of food. The residents of the boarding school have become human shields for the Russians. The Russian soldiers behaved cruelly. During the occupation, 13 patients died - from cold and hunger.