Drug intoxicated fighter of the Ukrainian army shot fellow combatants
he officer said that on June 10, in the village of Popasnaya, a serviceman of the third battalion of the 24th Brigade of the Ukrainian army shot his comrades-in-arms with an assault rifle after abusing narcotics. The Lieutenant-Colonel reported further that one soldier died on the spot due to the lethal wounds he received, a second serviceman was hospitalized.
Another tragic case happened on June 8, and was also reported by the Lugansk People’s Militia. Private Taras Nikolaevich Beletsky, a gunner of the mechanized infantry Squad of the 14th Brigade, committed suicide by shooting at his head with an assault rifle. It is also reported that a suicide note was found in the clothes of the deceased serviceman. In the message, Beletsky accused his company commander, who, while in a state of intoxication, had been regularly beating up and humiliating the young man. All complaints to the higher command resulted in new mockeries by Beletsky’s commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Marochko said.
