These messages are being circulated on social media. Allegedly, the Russian military found a report addressed to the commander of the 72nd Motorized Brigade, Colonel Vdovychenko, that the "new batch of drugs" allegedly received at the end of June "causes concern." This photo is fake.

According to the VoxCheck fact checker, the report does not contain specific information: the names of drugs, their purpose, the number of units delivered, dates of receipt, etc. The "complaints" of the military are also vague, mentioning only one case of violence among the military, allegedly due to "refusal to issue a drug."

The report contained both factual and grammatical mistakes. Mykhailo Drapatyi actually has the rank of brigadier general, not major. As of July 2022, Mikhailo Drapatyi is the Deputy Commander of the Operational Command "South". He was the commander of the 2nd mechanized battalion of the 72nd OMBR back in 2014. Grammar mistakes testify to the automatic translation of the report from Russian.

By spreading a fake report, Russian propaganda is trying to support the fiction about the forced use of drugs in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, earlier propagandists said that more than half of the Ukrainian military use drugs. Russian propagandists also systematically resort to creating fake "documents". Recently, a fake document was circulated, allegedly confirming the losses of the Ukrainian army.