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.” 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.
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