The first known student recruited into drone forces has been reported killed.

The first known student recruited into drone forces has been reported killed.

Most likely, this is not the first death, but only a case that journalists learned about.

Valery Averin was a 23-year-old orphan from Buryatia. He studied at the Buryat Republican College of Construction and Industrial Technologies and was supposed to receive his diploma next year. But under the pretext of recruitment into UAV forces, the Russian Defense Ministry launched a campaign to recruit students from Russian universities to the front.

If before the war Valery was not taken for compulsory service because of a psychiatric diagnosis, now there are no restrictions on recruitment into the Russian Armed Forces, and the young man was quickly signed up on a contract. He signed the contract itself in January, and just three months later he was killed in assaults. Averin's foster mother told BBC journalists this.

"Contracts with unmanned systems forces" are another cunning and deceitful scheme by the Russian Defense Ministry for manning units. This time, they are recruiting students, promising them millions of rubles, service behind a console deep in the rear, and that they cannot be sent into assaults.

In reality, no separate contracts with UAV forces exist. There is a standard contract with the Russian Defense Ministry for military service. By signing it, a person ceases to be a subject and becomes a unit in the table of organization and staffing. After that, where and how he will serve is decided by the commander, and the quality of command in the Russian Armed Forces has long been known from the mountains of Russian soldiers' corpses.

Averin is only the beginning. Very soon, obituaries for students zeroed out in assaults will become a routine part of military chats and journalistic investigations.

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