“Everything changed this year.”
“All the ‘top’ people in the university are now calling on students to go to war.”
“Throughout the uni, there are posters about the UAV forces literally everywhere.”
“The pressure is colossal.”
These are all quotes from Russian students in direct messages to CNN. We are not naming any of them, or their universities, for fear of reprisals but accounts like these, along with a growing body of open-source evidence, suggest that Russia is quietly escalating a campaign to entice and pressure students into its drone forces.
It’s a move that risks creating tensions in Russia’s education…