Commander of the 51st Army of the Russian Federation has set up a scheme for distributing drugs in his units

25 February, 2025 Commander of the 51st Army, Lieutenant General Sergei Milchakov. Photo: website of the DPR Lieutenant General Sergei Milchakov, commander of the 51st Army, set up drug sales among the Russian military and organized the deaths of his subordinates who exposed the drug sales schemes.

Investigators of the Toronto Television media project reported on this based on the seized correspondence of the Russian officer. "From our sources in the Defense Forces, we received correspondence from the Russian hero, Lieutenant General Sergei Milchakov, commander of the 51st Army. It should be noted that we have verified the contacts in this email checked the photos and videos," the researchers say.

The 51st Army is a reformatted former 1st Army Corps of the so-called "People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic," which was formed by Russian invaders in the Donetsk region in 2014 with the participation of Igor Girkin, an officer of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. According to the investigation, the Russian lieutenant general developed an extensive drug supply and trafficking scheme in his army, which involved other subordinate military officers, as well as brigade and regimental commanders. In one of the correspondences, Milchakov instructed his driver Kirill Martynov to transport unknown packages through checkpoints into the combat zone "that should not be heard by dogs." Milchakov used his own influence to get his cargo through without document checks or inspections.