UKRAINE. Kyiv. February 2023. Pavlivka psychiatric hospital. Ruslan (45) a soldier and former construction worker remembers his time in the trenches: "We are the shock troopers, the 'die-hards.' We didn't sleep; we could stay for five days, not eat for five days. We were taking the right bank of Kherson, and there I was wounded and shellshocked. A lot of my guys were killed. There were burning in armored personnel carriers — I saw it with my own eyes. I got hit with a grenade, but it didn't explode. I got hit in my bulletproof vest, then I flew 20 meters away. I wound up with shell shock. My wife died four years ago, and I have no children. I do have an aunt and cousins; they call me, they worry because I'm alone."