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According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel General Ruslan Khomchak, militants in the occupied territories regularly die from alcohol and drug abuse. He spoke about this in an interview with the editor-in-chief of the Internet edition “GORDON” Ales Batsman.
“We have information that people are constantly dying there from overdoses. The militants,” he said.
The commander-in-chief stressed that the Ukrainian army considers not only its losses, but also the enemy, since the military needs to understand who they are dealing with and know as much as possible everything that is happening in the occupied territories.
“Very often people die from drug overdoses, from alcohol, from the fact that while using this or that they die, a kind of confrontation with them … Anything can happen there,” he said.
Khomchak did not mention the exact percentage of such deaths compared to combat losses, but noted that we are talking about “a sufficient number”.
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In 2014, Russia occupied Crimea and launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
On July 22, 2020, the Trilateral Contact Group agreed to a full and complete ceasefire in Donbas starting at midnight on July 27. The Ukrainian side regularly reports cases of violations of the ceasefire by militants.
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