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Russia is sending alcoholics from rehabilitation centres to the front line in Ukraine, a soldier claimed.

An unnamed Russian serviceman described a stream of new arrivals to his unit – many of them older, physically unfit and struggling with alcohol dependency – in recent video footage.

He claimed that the men were rounded up at a facility in Petrozavodsk, close to the border with Finland, by “black recruiters” who confiscated their bank cards and drained their accounts of money.

In an expletive-laden and offensive rant, he said of his newly staffed unit: “They f---ing recruited a bunch of cripples who can’t even f---ing walk on top of being mentally unwell.

“I saw it myself – from Petrozavodsk, from Karelia, they recruited these f---ing guys from rehab, f---ing drunks.”

The soldier said there were around 30 unfit soldiers in his unit of 40.

The “black recruiters” refer to informal or illegal intermediaries who sign up men for military service through coercion, deception, or outright fraud, often operating alongside or in the shadows of the official recruitment system.

The soldier’s claims are the latest in a series of accusations that Russia has relied on coercion and manipulation to recruit soldiers physically or mentally unfit for combat.

These claims encompass men with serious illnesses, mental disabilities, and foreign recruits who were allegedly pressured or deceived into joining the ranks.

Taken together, Ukrainian officials say the pattern points to a strategy in which Moscow is increasingly dependent on vulnerable recruits, deploying large numbers of troops to secure gains on the front line regardless of the human cost.

Russian military losses in Ukraine exceeded the number of new recruits in January by approximately 9,000 soldiers, according to the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre (USCC).

“Given the situation, Russia has indeed been actively recruiting vulnerable groups, including people with various addictions, the unemployed, the ill, and former prisoners, and has also been using different methods to recruit migrants from other countries into its armed forces,” said Oksana Kuzan, co-founder and head of the analytical department of the USCC.

Ms Kuzan added that Russian propagandists themselves had indicated that the Kremlin set recruitment quotas for contract soldiers at the regional level, and that local officials often send almost anyone to the front with little regard for suitability.

The USCC reported that many men are forced to sign contracts while intoxicated, something also asserted by Russian war bloggers.

They claim that men’s signatures are often forged, or they are coerced into joining by being forced to choose between military service and one of Russia’s notoriously harsh prisons.

Recruiters are often paid bonuses for enlisting men, regardless of their fitness for combat, making marginalised people particularly vulnerable. Many recruiters are under pressure to meet targets for the number of men they enlist.

“What’s up with that guy? How does he manage to get around? Even if he does make it there, he won’t even be able to [fight], you know? And it’s like, ‘just let him get there’,” said the soldier in the video clip.

According to the soldier, commanders show little concern for the recruits’ condition, sending them into assault operations regardless, “just to make it there”.

Those who refused to go were beaten and have their injuries worsened, he added.

Russia is also accused of recruiting soldiers infected with HIV, hepatitis, and other diseases, who are reportedly deployed in segregated units and required to wear armbands identifying their illnesses.

Last year, sources within the military shared research with The Telegraph documenting five cases that they claimed revealed Russia’s willingness to send disabled or diseased soldiers into combat.

Waves of Russian soldiers are often sent into battle underprepared, with video footage showing them with no helmets or armour.

To replace the waves of men lost in “meat-grinder” assaults, Russia is thought to have lured thousands of Africans to the front lines, either under false pretences or with promises of hefty salaries.

“It can be assumed that as Russian military losses in the war against Ukraine increase, and the number of contract soldiers declines, the activity of such ‘black recruiters’ will also intensify,” said Ms Kuzan.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/26/russia-sending-alcoholics-rehab-centres-ukraine-front-line/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_rehab-centres-ukraine-front-line%2F

Russia is desperate now, Even undesirables are welcome to fight in the war, What a joke of a country.

Russia is a just a PAPER tiger afterall.

If I say p, you say r, another man say opaganda omo na you Sabi...


Who in their right senses recruits alcoholics and mad men to their army to compromise their security and victory?


It hasn't gotten that bad!

Russia already won this battle

This sounds very ridiculous

They should go continue their highness at the war front, good vibes.

They should send some to Nigeria since Tinubu is sleeping! These alcoholics will definitely become Wike's friends

Rehabilitation Pro Max.

The putin-fan boys here should volunteer to help putin win his war as at this point the russians are scraping the barrel to find soldiers

Putin mother was pregnant with Putin when she was among a group of people that had a very ghastly bomb attack in Russia during the German raid of Stalingrad in WW2

She lost consciousness and her body was dragged alongside the dead ones and piled up to be sent to cemetery for burial.

It was Putin grand mother that visited the accident site and forcefully fought for her body and took her later she regain consciousness.

She was in her early week of pregnant with Putin when this accident happened.

So if it wasn't for Putin grandma
Putin would not have been born
He would have been buried alongside his mother that they planned to bury in cemetry thinking that she died from the explosion.

That grandma is the cause of the bloodshed in Ukraine.
If she had not visited that site. Who knows

Maybe nature was trying to get rid of Putin
But his grandma just Bleep everything up

Now millions of Ukrainian don kpai because of that werey

Russia supporters oya defend your oga as brainless apc dey defend Balablu the Drug Barron.

Very soon they will send their children and wives to fight in Ukraine

Their eyes go soon clear

It's called meat assault for a reason.

Let dem defend their country. They are Humans too

brain54:
If I say p, you say r, another man say opaganda omo na you Sabi...


Who in their right senses recruits alcoholics and mad men to their army to compromise their security and victory?


It hasn't gotten that bad!

Iran is currently recruiting 12 years old. Alcoholics are even better.

brain54:
If I say p, you say r, another man say opaganda omo na you Sabi...


Who in their right senses recruits alcoholics and mad men to their army to compromise their security and victory?


It hasn't gotten that bad!

No be small propaganda o

E no go funny ooo..is this Ukraine war reck Russia oo... because russia been doing many silly things to stay in that war....like fraudulently recruiting Africans to fight in Frontline and also use of force on immigrants to fight... irrespective of their military backgrounds

Na once Dem go sober immediately



Who go dey fight for you while you drink to stupor and make merry😁

It's war.........

But wait oooh!!!
When them one do exchange of the dead, na like 10000 to Ukraine and 10 to Russia we they always see

So right now, I don't know what to believe, but what I know is that Ukraine wouldn't be the same... And Europe ain't coming to their aid

That's depressing, Russia should end the war now he has trump on his side temporarily.

Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear.

Kaliningrad aka WriterNg aka WriteerNg

You see what your land grabbing Putin is now resorting to ?

Africans recruited with fake job offers is no longer enough...

North Koreans sent to the meat grinder is not enough...

Hardened Criminals from Russian jail was not enough

Now he is sending people from rehabs to the Frontlines...

And some of them are even Cripples that can't walk .... Some are mentally unwell ?

Russia is indeed a Paper Tiger...

This is indeed Russia's forever war

Putin remains Zelensky's boy since 1988..

Thank you for your Attention to this matter

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Once dem reach war front their eyes go clear wella from alcohol

BlackViper:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/26/russia-sending-alcoholics-rehab-centres-ukraine-front-line/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_rehab-centres-ukraine-front-line%2F

Putin must surely have his day with world court for war crime committed during this condemnable war against Ukraine.

Everything is propaganda to pro-Putin lunatics.

Yet 4 year after, Russia is still stuck in Ukraine

mightyhaze:
Na once Dem go sober immediately



Who go dey fight for you while you drink to stupor and make merry😁

Did they send Putin the unwarranted war.

Hahaha Hahaha Hahaha this is hilarious...drunkards lol

Hahaha Hahaha Hahaha this is hilarious, drunkards at the battle fronts wow

A variation of what iran is doing.... mopping the enemy's investment in offensive with vunerable humans or undesirables or ones they consider junk or disposables... before they send higher standard resistance... the coerced africans, drunks etc are fodder

20k drone vs 3 X $1m interceptor

kinda situation.


Nigeria had better be self sufficient completely ... all this selling self to Uk, portugal, france, US etc is unecessary

Exactly where they are supposed to be. One man who is supposed to join them is busy calling a naval officer a fool in Abuja.