The kremlin is recruiting women from Africa to manufacture drones
russia’s recruitment of young women in South Africa for a strike drone production plant has reached such a scale that the government of this country has been forced to publicly respond and warn its citizens about the danger.
▫️ The “alabuga” special economic zone is conducting an active advertising campaign to recruit workers from African and Asian countries, promising high salaries and career prospects. In reality, it is work at a military plant producing drones for bombing Ukraine.
▫️ Notably, russia is using BRICS structures to search for workers. In other words, the kremlin is involving an international organization — which it constantly tries to present as a tool of economic development and peaceful cooperation — for its military purposes.
This demonstrates the kremlin’s true attitude towards Africa — as a source of resources, particularly human ones. Despite russian propaganda in Africa about the “fight against colonialism” and opposition to the West, russia is in fact reproducing colonial practices by exploiting vulnerable groups of the population in African states.
