Russia looks to students to make up for mounting losses in Ukraine
Russia began a large-scale drive to recruit young people from universities and colleges into its drone forces early this year. Valery Averin, 23, is among the first Russian students known to have been killed in Ukraine after signing up as part of this drive. His foster mother, Oksana Afanayeva, stated, "He studied drones for three months - and yet they still threw him into a frontal assault, into the meat grinder." Averin had never served in the army.
The campaign focuses particularly on students struggling academically or considering a break from studies. Averin was in his final year at the Buryat Republican Technical School of Construction. He called his foster mother early in April to say he was being sent somewhere "with no [phone] signal." On April 8, she learned he had been killed in a mortar strike near Russian-occupied Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. Vladislav Gorbunov, an 18-year-old, died 4 months after signing a contract.
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