When 23-year-old Russian student Valery Averin signed a military contract in January after being recruited into Russia’s drone forces campaign targeting students, he was told he would train as a drone operator. Three months later, he was dead near Luhansk after reportedly being sent into an assault unit
First known Russian recruited from university dies in Ukraine, exposing Russia’s student recruitment campaign
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