1.0Центр журналистских расследованийhttps://investigator.org.ua/enedvpkhttps://investigator.org.ua/en/author/karaivan/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="EeBSz9Rie1"><a href="https://investigator.org.ua/en/investigations/278211/">How Russians Abducted Patients of Psychoneurological Houses in Kherson Region and Made Them Hostages</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://investigator.org.ua/en/investigations/278211/embed/#?secret=EeBSz9Rie1" width="600" height="338" title="“How Russians Abducted Patients of Psychoneurological Houses in Kherson Region and Made Them Hostages” — Центр журналистских расследований" data-secret="EeBSz9Rie1" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> https://investigator.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/pidopichni_dnipryanskogo_internatu_v_rf.jpg25581505Ludmila Pestova, resident of Nova Kakhovka, visited her son Andrii in the morning of November 4, 2022. He has lived for years in Dnipryany psychoneurological boarding school, specialized residential facility for long term care and support for adults with serious mental and neurological disorders. When she came back home, she noticed a column of buses ahead of her. Later she was told that one of them carried her son Andrii to Crimea and then to Russia. Ludmila had to search her son and persuade Russian occupants that he has been her son. On that November day, armed Russian occupants forcibly took away 96 residents of the boarding school. They did not warn their parents or legitimate guardians. One resident was frightened and tried to hide in the nearby building. Russian occupants caught him and made an unknown injection, «to calm him down». Finally, Russians deported remaining residents of the boarding school – bedridden patients, who could not move without assistance. «Boys did not want to go and did not understand what was going on. Russians behaved like Gestapo people from movies about Nazists. They took and dragged patients to buses. Patients cried and did not want to go. Their weeping broke my heart», as told witnesses of those events. The Center for Journalist Investigations interviewed relatives of forcibly deported people with serious mental disorders and witnesses of this war crime. For security reasons, we do not quote some real names whereas other names are changed (they are marked with *).