Oleg Suprun was in charge of the town hospital in Donbass when it was seized by Ukrainian nationalists in 2014. The man was struck by their level of cruelty. Eventually, Oleg discovered that Ukrainian troops used potent psychotropic drugs. ‘More than once, I saw syringes in their pockets with butorphanol’, Oleg recalls. These drugs are believed to suppress the fear of death and greatly increase endurance, but at what cost?