Mental health crisis in Russian army: alcohol-addicted, mentally disturbed soldiers commit suicide

[Starmix]

According to the report, Russian soldier Andrei Burychin, 22, was wounded while fighting in Ukraine. Last fall, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Yekaterinburg and later discharged with what his lawyer described as a grim diagnosis. In the weeks that followed, Burychin started drinking heavily. According to his lawyer, he attempted to drive back to his unit in the Chelyabinsk region while intoxicated, was pulled over for drunk driving, and handed over to the military police. After hearing his platoon was preparing for a difficult new operation, he returned to the front in Ukraine’s Donetsk region to train with them, his lawyer said. Burychin’s story is not unusual.

The report also stated that in the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, reports of post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol addiction among both contract soldiers and mobilized troops are on the rise. While independent media have documented the growing mental health crisis, Russian researchers are now starting to publish data that quantifies the scale of the problem, The Moscow Times recalls. One study conducted by 16 psychiatrists and medical researchers surveyed 140 servicemen treated at Moscow Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 between 2023 and 2024. The average age of these soldiers was 34. Some had fought in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region long before the 2022 full-scale invasion.


There is nonsense about this war, so they break with alcohol, drugs, and fights with each other. They can't handle all the winning Putin is doing.

 

[eLdavis]

I honestly don't blame them for taking such a decision, with the situation of things it was highly expected.

 

[Starmix]

This will be the picture of the soldiers who like to forget their deadly situation, take alcohol to forget for a while that they are in a war zone where winning is an absolute negative.