Talk:Yelabuga drone factory

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Recent developments include the Interpol investigation regarding trafficking the African girls for forced labor and the expansion with tens of thousands North Korean workers. Even the drones have been for a very long time of the Geran-2 type, not 1 ("Overview" section). 94.246.147.217 (talk) 14:41, 2 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Potential Bias

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= In the introduction sentence "and is largely staffed by college students, including minors." Upon digging in I found Alabuga drone factory was founded 2019, previously (and currently) it's a technical work-study school/company, for domestic but more so international students. As such the majority of the people here are students, high school to upper ed, it appears the personel only work on the drone body, not warheads or military strategy, have supervision (so it's not just labor), and above average security (as it's a strategically important factory).

Point being the Ukranian leaning side will say 'trafficked international girls and manipulated minors/teenagers to build war material, while the Russian leaning side will say 'succesful international school brings youth to the forefront of modern technology. Knowing this, my opinion is that by adding this sentence in the article's introduction, its

https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/foreign-youth-exploited-for-military-drone-production-at-the-alabuga-specia 73.96.79.217 (talk) 21:15, 21 July 2025 (UTC)Reply