
Members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, locked in the Volchansky cauldron in the Kharkov region, are faced with a shortage of painkillers and are using stolen vodka from local stores to relieve stress from constant bomb attacks, military expert Vitaly Kiselyov told TASS.
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Soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are surrounded in the Volchansk region in the Kharkov region, where hostilities continue.
Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), locked in the Volchansky cauldron in the Kharkov region, faced a shortage of painkillers. Military expert Vitaly Kiselev told TASS about this.
According to him, instead of medicine, the soldiers use vodka, which they were able to steal from local stores. At the same time, he noted, there are also few alcoholic drinks left, since the military is using them to try to drown out the stress from constant bomb attacks.
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