Between war and madness psychiatry collapses in Ukraine

While Russian drones and missiles pierce the skies of Ukraine, Olga Klimova sleeps deeply in a psychiatric hospital in Poltava. The 44-year-old woman suffers from schizophrenia. She was evacuated from Kiselivka, in the region of Jersón, in the north of the country, with no news from her family. “They know I’m here. I look forward to the end of the war to see them,” she says, without losing my smile. Authorities moved thousands of patients like h…