Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots

Russia is forcing university students to train as wartime drone pilots, turning higher education into a battlefield pipeline amid the Ukraine conflict. Compulsory courses at 120 institutions now teach FPV drone operation, with 8,000 students graduated in six months. Compared to Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval's copyright dispute, this is a direct infringement on human rights, not intellectual property. Over 60% of conscripts are under 22, facing six-month deployments with a 25% casualty rate in drone units, according to leaked Ministry of Defense data.