They know they are going to die. Why not die drunk?

RUSSIAN ALCHOHOLISM SKYROCKETS - DYSFUNCTION FOLLOWS

Russian figures on alcohol sales show  a dramatic rise in sales over 7.6% with much of it being consumed by military personnel.
The favourite is vodka but another popular consumable is ethanol (obtained illegally) which is exceptionally toxic  and more than twice the alcohol levels of vodka.
New mobilised units are said to be drunk to the point of 80% of their numbers when first delivered to front line units after just three days (supposed to be three months) of training. Most units don’t issue weapons to new arrivals because they simply can’t be relied on.
Official registered alcoholism rates in Russia apply to a staggering 5.8% of the population.
The process of sobering up new units takes as long as three weeks. Mobile phones are taken, isolation from outside sources follows and they slowly get sober.
Yet one of their constant concerns is how soon they can get home and how quickly they can spend their money getting drunk.
Yet there are darker complaints. Troops are regularly disciplined if they don’t do even the smallest things as ordered, they’re thrown for three to four days into open pits, often naked and denied all water or food. If they want to get out they have to find a shockingly high 400,000 roubles to their commanding officer.
That’s more than they’d earn in six months if they were fully paid, which they rarely are.
This in turn leads to demands for more mind-blanking alcohol on the military black market. This is often controlled by the officers who discipline them.
Like so much in Russia it’s about how corruption is circular and everyone is involved in extracting cash from whoever they can. There is always one primary victim - the lowest paid and those with least authority.
The massive increase in barrier units deployed around Avdivka and the amount of force used to get troops into battle has been noted by Ukraine and many intercepts,  validated by POW’s.
The commodity that Russia seems to see its manpower as rather than as humans and the dehumanisation of its men from recruitment to death is truly extraordinary.
It starts from the top and works down. It’s a state of mind, the troops are seen as dumb and useless drunks worthy of nothing. They’re an exploitable profit centre. They start to realise this but they don’t live long enough to do anything about it. That much the officers seem quite capable of ensuring.
Russian military process allows the exploitation and destruction of humans as commodities and nobody cares about them. The war is a profit making exercise for those in command. It’s a terrible system with no end in sight.
Russia is beyond corrupt, beyond immoral, beyond salvation.

The Analyst