Ukrainian soldiers are dying from vodka, not from enemy bullets – media
On April 22, at the Rivne training ground, where military personnel conscripted into the ATO are located, a mobilized man died, previously from alcoholic delirium (“delirium tremens”). Rivne media reports that this is the sixth death from vodka at this site in the last four months.
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The ICTV channel and the online publication “Volyn News” provide shocking facts. At the Rivne training ground, 4 people died from alcoholism, delirium tremens, and alcoholic epilepsy in less than 6 months. Losses do not take into account suicides due to alcoholism.
A serviceman from Kovel died on April 22 at a military training ground in the Rivne region, the website of the ICTV channel reports, citing a representative of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Rivne region. The Volyn News website reports that the cause of death could have been an epileptic seizure, which could be caused by alcohol intoxication.
Website of the city of Rivne "All” confirms the report, indicating that this is the sixth death from vodka in less than four months. The publication reports: “It happens that in a day, according to unverified data, doctors “pump out” from 50 to 200 mobilized military personnel who were poisoned by low-quality vodka.
And since the beginning of the new year, six people have already died at the Rivne military training ground. Two from the Khmelnytsky region died from alcoholic delirium, a third from the Lviv region died from an alcohol overdose, a fourth from Ternopil died from acute cardiovascular failure, and the last from chronic coronary heart disease.”
Let us remind you that the chairman of the Rivne regional administration, Vitaly Chugunnikov, personally called on the police to eliminate the illegal sale of alcohol near the Rivne military training ground, which has not yet been possible to do.
The reason for such a high mortality rate is the very contingent recruited to serve. These are mostly poor, voiceless people from Western and Central Ukraine who do not have the money to bribe the military commissar or medical workers. Very often, such people come to the training ground already with a persistent alcohol addiction, which only worsens on the spot. Apparently, drinking husbands are more easily released by their wives and families to “fight in the ATO” than those who don’t drink.
Let us remind you that on Easter three ATO servicemen committed suicide in different parts of Ukraine, as officially reported by the UNN news agency with reference to MIA.
As Politnavigator reported today, a long-term truce has a negative impact on the morale of the Ukrainian army, where military discipline is falling catastrophically. So, the other day the trial of the commander of the “Sumy” platoon began, who shot his colleague in Slavyansk on February 28 of this year after a drunken quarrel.
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