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Russian soldier Andrei Burychin, 22, was wounded while fighting in Ukraine. Last fall, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Yekaterinburg and later discharged with what his lawyer described as a “grim diagnosis”, says The Moscow Times.
In the weeks that followed, Burychin started drinking heavily. According to his lawyer, he attempted to drive back to his unit in the Chelyabinsk region while intoxicated, was pulled over for drunk driving and handed over to the military police.
After hearing his platoon was preparing for a difficult new operation, he returned to the front in Ukraine’s Donetsk region to train with them, his lawyer said.
Burychin’s story is not unusual. In the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, reports of post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol addiction among both contract soldiers and mobilized troops are on the rise.
While independent media have documented the growing mental health crisis, Russian researchers are now starting to publish data that quantifies the scale of the problem, The Moscow Times recalls.
One study conducted by 16 psychiatrists and medical researchers surveyed 140 servicemen treated at Moscow Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 between 2023 and 2024.
The average age of these soldiers was 34. Some had fought in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region long before the 2022 full-scale invasion.
Roughly half of the participants were diagnosed with PTSD upon admission. The most common symptom, reported by more than 70% of respondents, was intrusive memories of combat. By discharge, however, only 18.6% still carried a PTSD diagnosis.
The rest were reclassified as suffering from organic mental disorders caused by brain injuries (26%), affective disorders (20%), schizotypal or delusional disorders (15%) or alcohol dependence (10%). Less frequent diagnoses included psychotic and adjustment disorders.
Anxiety (75%), depression (51%) and insomnia (48%) were the most common accompanying symptoms. Psychiatrists also noted attention-seeking behavior, difficulties in communicating with relatives and widespread alcohol abuse.
Russian servicemen sometimes share the psychological toll the war has taken on them on social media.
“How do I get discharged on medical grounds? More precisely, how do I prove to my commanders that I’m not stable and my mind is slipping?” one soldier asked on the VKontakte social network. “Three years without rest or family, and sometimes during combat you just lose it. I need a psychiatrist or a sanatorium.” A Russian psychologist who works with veterans told The Moscow Times that heavy drinking often stems from anger and alienation.
“They feel rage at the indifference of civilians, who go on living their lives without knowing what war is,” the psychologist said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “One ‘special military operation hero’ told me he didn’t leave his house for two months so he wouldn’t beat someone up. He drank the whole time until he realized he was becoming an alcoholic.”
A 2025 study in Novosibirsk surveyed 130 servicemen hospitalized at the city’s Psychiatric Hospital No. 3 between 2022 and 2024. Of these, 32 men had been admitted after attempting suicide.
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