“Death Can Wait”: Drugs on the Frontline in Ukraine (Podcast)
“Death Can Wait”: Drugs on the Frontline in Ukraine (Podcast)
Throughout history soldiers have used drugs, sometimes to fight better or to stay alert, or perhaps to help cope with the extreme psychological situation and trauma they are faced with. The current conflict in Ukraine is no different.
Concerns around this led to the Ukrainian parliament passing a new law that authorizes random drug and alcohol tests on soldiers. Organized crime is nothing if not adaptable, even in this most extreme environment. The soldiers fighting to protect their homeland represent a new and relatively wealthy market, ripe for criminal networks to exploit. And they are doing just that.
So who is behind this market? This is a story about war, drugs, the darknet and corruption. (Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, Genf, 22.05.2023, Podcast, 41:02, mit weiteren Links zum Thema Drogen im Krieg)