‘Pawns in Putin’s war game’: African women lured into drone factories

France24 | 12-10-2025 03:45am |

Russia has been accused of making false promises to recruit young women from across Africa to work in drone-assembling factories. The women were coerced into assembling Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in a dangerous area that has been repeatedly bombed by Ukraine.

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