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Ukrainian soldiers with drone da Vyriy Drone
In the fifth year of the war, Moscow is diversifying its campaign to bolster the army’s ranks. In addition to financial incentives, students who enlist for a minimum period of one year have an extended academic leave and a guaranteed exemption from any fees upon return.
Students across Russia are being enticed with high incentives financial resources to join drone units fighting in Ukraine, as operators and engineers.
Meanwhile, companies from the central Russian region of Ryazan received quotas for enroll workers in the army.
O recruitment effort comes at a time when Russian forces continue to advance slowly on the battlefield in Ukraine and where US-mediated peace talks are stoppages due to war with Iran, notes the agency.
However, This is not a general mobilizationwhich the Kremlin said this week not be on the tablenor, according to senior officials, is Russia short of recruits, despite Ukrainian allegations that Kyiv is eliminate Russian troops at a higher rate than its replacement.
Dmitri Medvedevvice-president of the Security Council, told state media on Friday that the Russian recruitment system, which offers substantial financial packages for volunteerscontinues to produce results. More than 400 thousand people enlisted last year and more than 80,000 have done so this year, he said.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskovsaid on Thursday that he had not seen official documents regarding student recruitment and business recruitment quotas in Ryazan.
However, it confirmed that the students are being encouraged to join the Russian drone forces, a new division of the armed forces created at the end of last year on the initiative of President Vladimir Putin.
To recruitment offer applies equally to everyone — workers, students and the unemployed — Peskov told journalists. “It is a completely open offeran invitation to join a new type of unit.”
Russia’s decision to target students, in a process that critics say was sometimes accompanied by undue pressuresuggests that Moscow is interested in channeling more human resources qualified for its drone forces, which play an increasingly more decisive in what has long become a war of attrition.
Os drone operators from both sides normally work some distance from the front line, but are considered high value targetsbeing chased and killed if their positions are revealed.
The Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok is promising students to enlist for a minimum period of one year a prolongable academic leave and Guaranteed exemption from any tuition fees on the way back, as well as free accommodation and scholarships.
The institution also undertakes to bear the costs of any necessary military equipment and weapons.
