BBC Russia reports student recruited into Russia’s drone forces killed in Ukraine

BBC Russia has obtained information about the death in the war in Ukraine of Valery Averin, a 23-year-old student from Buryatia who had signed a contract to serve in Russia’s unmanned systems forces — the first confirmed case of a student being killed after being recruited through a large-scale campaign that Russia’s Defense Ministry has been running at universities and colleges.

Original source: Meduza