Almost all Tomsk universities have advertised contracts for unmanned forces on their websites.
Students are being recruited to join the first unmanned aerial vehicle unit, Rubicon. In addition to UAV operators, Rubicon is seeking communications specialists, electronic warfare and reconnaissance specialists, air defense specialists, IT specialists, sappers, medics, and drivers.
Students Tomsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (TSUACE)attract the opportunity to complete a year of military service at Rubicon while maintaining academic leave, high salaries of up to three million rubles, and benefits. Previously, the university created working A group comprising deans of key faculties and institute directors is tasked with meeting the Ministry of Education and Science's monthly quotas for recruiting candidates for UAV operator positions. In February, the military have come to the university personally to recruit students.
В Tomsk Polytechnic University Students and staff are recruited through their personal account. Upon logging in появляется A third-screen banner advertising service in the unmanned forces. A recruitment announcement for Rubicon. placed in the "Announcements" section, where announcements of cultural and scientific events are published.
Information about the methods used to lure students into fighting, "NeMoscow" gathered in cards.
At the same time, students are not informed that those who sign the contract can be sent to any troops instead of unmanned ones under the pretext that they did not pass the selection for the UAV troops.
One-year contracts with the Ministry of Defense are also a scam. They are automatically extended during Vladimir Putin's decree declaring mobilization, which hasn't been rescinded yet.
Another Tomsk university is Tomsk Pedagogical University - is also posted on The first page of the website features an advertisement for the Rubicon center with the terms of the contract and a video clip. an ad The phones belong to a recruiter who previously recruited people for the Tomsk named detachment "Vasyugan".
Photo: screenshots from the TSUACE, TPU, and TSPU websites
