Maxim Kolyada, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured in the Zaporozhye direction, said: RIA NewsHe said that there were many people in his unit who had been using drugs for years.
According to him, if there were 20-30 people in a unit, half of them were drug addicts. And not everyone is older than 30.
The soldier claims that there are many opportunities to find banned substances and that it is “just about money and teamwork”.
The agency quotes Kolyada as saying: “Everyone can see that there are no intellectuals, no professors, everyone smokes hemp, and where you smoke hemp, you can also buy amphetamines.”
He added that large quantities of drugs are now in the Ukrainian Armed Forces because they can be used as wages.
The day before Bloomberg reportedUkraine’s Verkhovna Rada may legalize the use of medical marijuana to help the country’s military personnel participate in conflicts, he said.
He was previously a fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated About the lack of understanding of the causes of the conflict in Ukraine.