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Farhad Mirmohammadsadeghi

Russia ramps up drone production using teenage workers, video shows

Russia is producing thousands of long-range suicide drones monthly at a factory staffed partly by teenagers, as Moscow prepares to potentially launch 2,000 drones nightly against Ukraine.

In a video shared by the Russian Defence Ministry's television network featuring the Yelabuga plant near Kazan, students and staff are seen in rows on the factory's production line, producing black Geran-2 drones, the Russian version of the Iranian Shahed.

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