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Russia's latest attack on Kyiv aided by Alabuga SEZ- drone manufacture program

 Rescuers carrying a body out of a residential building heavily damaged during a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Aug 28, 2025. [AFP]

The latest attack on Ukraine where more than 23 people including four children were killed came at a time European media had been reporting Russia’s increased drone manufacture under its Special Economic Zone program that uses labor sought through entrapment and other unorthodox methods.

The near-slave program that operates by ensnaring youths from third world countries in Africa, the Indian Sub-continent and South America has been running under a program that The Standard has previously reported described by Moscow as Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ) established in the Tatarstan Republic.

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