Let's hope they keep tricking them. Deliberately or accidentally, these young women are putting together defective drones.

Russia is tricking young girls from Africa, Asia and Latin America into assembling 'Shaheds' - Associated Press

About 200 foreign women are assembling Iranian drones in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan. Girls aged 18–22 are lured to Russia using the online program Alabuga Start: on the program’s website, they are promised education in Europe, a free plane ride, and work in the service and catering industries, but this turns out to be a scam.

As a result, the girls face constant monitoring, broken promises about wages, and dangerous work with caustic chemicals that ruin their skin. “I regret and curse the day I started doing this,” the newspaper quotes one of the women as saying. Along with the foreigners, there are 15-16-year-old Russian students from vocational schools who also complain about the working conditions.

Analysts have found that since July 29, about 95% of drones have not hit any visible targets in Ukraine. Instead, they fall into rivers and fields in Ukraine, fly into Latvia, and fall in Russia or Belarus. Before July, about 14% of Shaheds hit targets in Ukraine. The publication writes that one of the reasons for the decline in the quality of drones may be unskilled labor.

The Alabuga Special Economic Zone was created in 2006 to attract business and investment to Tatarstan. After February 2022, it quickly expanded, and parts of it switched to military production.

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