Putin’s ‘zombie soldiers’ are returning from Ukraine with thirst for violence after being warped by aggression of Russian invasion
- Large numbers are now alcoholics or drug addicts, according to shocking report
Doctors in Russia are in despair over how soldiers in Putin’s war against Ukraine are returning home as ‘aggressive zombies’.
Fighters – many of them mobilised against their will – are coming back like ‘animals’, psychologically warped by the horrors they have experienced.
Large numbers are now alcoholics or drug addicts embracing the violence and cruelty they have seen on the frontline, according to a shocking new report.
‘Aggressive zombies will soon fill the streets of our cities,’ a senior health official – who is also a doctor treating disturbed returnees – told Novaya Vkladka news outlet.
‘They will massively beat and even kill passers-by.
Large numbers of soldiers are now alcoholics or drug addicts embracing the violence and cruelty they have seen on the frontline, according to a shocking new report (File Photo)
Ukrainian servicemen practicing aiming their weapons at a firing range in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on July 29, 2023
‘And how to prevent it, I personally do not know.
‘I just do not see other scenarios for the development of the situation with those who returned from the special military operation.’
The calamitous human cost of Putin’s war is in addition to more than a quarter of a million killed or physically maimed in the brutal war he started almost 18 months ago.
The anonymous health official and doctor is working in Kemerovo, a Siberian region deeply hit by returning ‘wounded, amputees, drug addicts, alcoholics, [and] people with mental and psychological problems’.
Available doctors are each expected to handle between 200 and 250 such war returnees each month, he said.
‘Injuries, PTSD – this is all, of course, a problem, it needs to be dealt with, but the main, in my opinion, problem in terms of prevalence and potential danger is addictions,’ he said.
‘Simply put, a lot of those who returned [from the war] are either alcoholics or, more often, drug addicts.
‘Their main addiction is amphetamines [and speed].
‘And here everything is much more complicated and sadder in terms of the prospects for treatment and subsequent socialisation.’
He warned that ‘almost every other person’ returning from Putin’s bloody war admits to the use of psycho-stimulants’.
He described the crisis as ‘hopeless’ with shortages of doctors and many leaving because of intolerable pressures.
‘This special military operation [war] is like another tombstone on the grave,’ he said.
‘There are almost no doctors left, and now the last ones are leaving [due to] unrealistic demands on them.’
‘Injuries, PTSD – this is all, of course, a problem, it needs to be dealt with, but the main, in my opinion, problem in terms of prevalence and potential danger is addictions,’ said the anonymous health official and doctor, who is working in Kemerovo (File Photo)
Available doctors are each expected to handle between 200 and 250 such war returnees each month, he said (File Photo)
One issue is that many doctors are being recruited for the war zone in occupied Ukraine.
The doctor said: ‘Not everyone supports the special military operation.
‘Secondly, going there is dangerous…
‘And if you refuse, the management says only one thing: if you don’t like it, quit.
‘So [doctors] are leaving.’
Neuropathologists are each expected under an order from the health ministry to take on 300 war returnees a month on top of their existing caseloads, said another medic.
He said: ‘What can be done with a patient in 5-10 minutes…? That’s right: nothing.’
He told of one returnee who came to see him with his wife after turning into a violent monster following his war experience.
‘He had never beaten [his wife] before,’ said the doctor.
‘He came back from the war a different person. The woman filed for divorce.
‘This patient is really extremely aggressive, cannot control himself in the company of other people, and is constantly looking for conflict.’
He was a stormtrooper in the notorious Wagner mercenary army, said the medic.
The prognosis for treating this fighter is ‘poor – given the degree of drug dependence and [early stages of] PTSD’.
The anonymous health official said: ‘Simply put, a lot of those who returned [from the war] are either alcoholics or, more often, drug addicts’ (File Photo)
He described the crisis as ‘hopeless’ with shortages of doctors and many leaving because of intolerable pressures (File Photo)
The doctor – also anonymous for fear of retribution by Putin’s regime – asked: ‘What we can do?
‘Only remove the acute condition with sedative drugs.
‘Again, long-term work of a clinical psychologist is needed.
‘But this, I am almost 100 per cent sure, will not happen.
‘There are thousands of patients, and a handful of doctors and psychologists.
‘And the result, sorry for the cynicism, is either [suicide] or [get killed with] a knife while drinking, or he will rob, rape, or kill someone and will be sent to prison.
‘Personally, the first option is better – at least he will only harm himself.’
The first doctor warned: ‘There are thousands of people who have returned from the war.
‘They have learned to kill.
‘Their psyche has changed, including by drugs.
‘Moreover, many of them went to war not to defend their “homeland” but in order to get out of a pre-trial detention centre or a penal colony early.
‘So it was difficult to call them angels before.
‘And now they are mostly animals, sorry to put it so harshly.
‘It is like a cheap zombie apocalypse, where it is scary for a normal person.’
The Royal United Service Institute published a May report examining how Russia’s military tactics have evolved in the second year of fighting, citing Ukrainian military personnel who said the Russian soldiers they came across frequently appeared to be ‘under the influence of amphetamines or other narcotic substances’.
The men most likely to be battling while high are Russia’s ‘disposable infantry,’ which largely consists of conscripts from the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, prisoners drafted by the Wagner Group, and mobilised draftees, the report said.
The report added that these ‘disposable’ troops are sent in small groups to ‘skirmish’ with Ukraine’s defense ‘until killed’.
Material recovered from the battlefield suggests the Russian soldiers are most likely consuming the substances in liquid form, the report said.
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