Russian soldiers are getting hard drugs delivered to their trenches in Ukraine, according to the independent Russian news outlet Verstka:
Mephedrone, amphetamines, and alpha-PVP, known as “salt”, are among the substances that Russian soldiers on the frontline take, with effects including paranoia and hallucinations, the report said.
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Access to the drugs is easy, according to Verstka, as they are either sold by locals, brought in by the men themselves, or found on the Telegram messaging app.
However, the drugs found online are not cheap due to the risk of delivery in the war zone, one soldier told the outlet. Three syringes of an illegal substance could cost about 15,000 rubles ($150), he said.
This is not the first time a report has outlined drug use among Russian troops.
In a report in May, the British think-thank Royal United Service Institute said that Russian soldiers often appear to be “under the influence of amphetamines or other narcotic substances” on the battlefield.
I must have missed that science class which introduced the standard unit of a “syringe”. What kind of drug reporting is that? Alpha-pvp and methamphetamine are active in the neighborhood of 10-50mg depending on tolerance, which is a tiny amount of powder one wouldn’t sell in the form of a preloaded syringe even if the user was planning IV administration, and not even freezing, shell-shocked mobiks would buy those at $50 a dose.