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HAVING identified Russia’s weak link – its soldiers’ love of alcohol, NATO has begun supplying “vodka drones” – small cheap drones laden with bottles of vodka – to Kyiv, to be sent to Russian soldiers fighting on the front line in eastern Ukraine.

“It’s a game changer,” says a NATO insider. “We have them now. Each of these little drones will turn up to ten Russian soldiers into raving alcoholics. The Russians already have a drink problem, this will make it explode, if you’ll excuse the pun.

“The only tanks the Ukrainians will need now are drunk tanks.”