Back in August, it was reported by TASS that Russian specialists had found opiates and ephedrine substances at positions earlier abandoned by Ukrainian troops. Chief of the Russian Army’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, said at the time, “Special attention should be paid to the narcotic drugs, including opioid drugs, found at the positions abandoned by the Ukrainian army, such as methadone, codepsine and codeterp, as well as ephedrine substances: t-fedrine and triphedrine.” He noted that methadone is used to treat drug addiction, as a substitute for heavier drugs.
TASS also reports on the diseases found in samples taken from soldiers. They write that Kirillov “recalled that earlier high concentrations of antibiotics and immunological markers were found in their blood, which indicated contact with the causative agents of the fever with renal syndrome and the West Nile fever, which the Pentagon had been studying under the Ukrainian projects UP-4 and UP-8.”
