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Africans recruited to work in Russia say they were duped into building drones for use in Ukraine

Lured to play a computer game with a faraway adventure in Europe as prize, dozens of young women from Africa and Sri Lanka end up being forced to work in a combat drone factory in Russia's Tatarstan region
With unemployment at record lows and many Russians already working in military industries, fighting in Ukraine or having fled abroad, plant officials turned to using vocational students and cheap foreign labor

By AP · 11 October 2024