According to the main military prosecutor's office, the damage from non-combat losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014. during the conflict in the east of the country amounted to 10 thousand 103 people. Prosecutor Anatoly Matios saw the main reason for the death of soldiers and officers in violations of military regulations and negligent attitude towards the service. And Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak bluntly stated that the military is dying from alcoholism and violation of security measures. At the front there are monstrous situations. A year ago, a Ukrainian soldier, having drunk too much, pulled out a check from a hand grenade and threw it into the stove. As a result of the explosion, 13 of his colleagues were killed. The high command also drinks in black. The defense minister had to dismiss the commander of the 14th Brigade of the Armed Forces, Colonel Konstantin Gorlo and the Chief Inspector General of the Air Force, General Nikolai Petrushenko, who had drunk to hell, recalls "Vzglyad".

The reason for the large number of deaths is also "crimes against each other," they acknowledge in Kiev. Servicemen in a state of intoxication arrange clashes with each other. Especially often find out the relationship terrbats and parts of the Marine Corps. Comes to shooting and knifing.

In the front-line zone (Mariupol, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka), the civil administration is trying to restrict or completely prohibit the military from selling alcohol, but this does not help. They still find that to drink. For example, they buy moonshine from the local population - the corresponding units are available in almost every household.

Soldiers and officers drink not only in the Donbass, but also in other areas. Thus, the composition of the 6th Army Corps stationed in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions in anticipation of an offensive by the Russian army from the Crimea often goes drunkenly "to fraternize" with Russian border guards.

The main military prosecutor's office claims that 360 thousand. soldiers who passed the Donbass, suffer from post-traumatic syndrome. However, psychotherapists claim that it is about the consequences of alcoholism.

Of all this, Anatoly Matios makes an unexpected conclusion. "The army, when it does not receive the right command and qualification of those actions that take place in the state, becomes stupor, especially since the army was demoralized and virtually destroyed by the previous authorities," he said.. Thus, officials, reluctantly recognizing the alcoholic malady of the armed forces, refuse to honestly acknowledge the reasons why the army is drunk.

To solve the problem, the staff psychotherapists of the Defense Ministry propose to activate volunteer work. Like, the military will drink less if they send children's letters and picture postcards. From the point of view of "medical luminaries", this should demonstrate to the soldiers that they are needed, but for the time being they do not understand why and to whom all this is needed.