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Russia Posts Drone Operator Job on Major Site for Moscow Defense
Russia advertised a volunteer drone operator position on its largest jobs website to help protect Moscow. The listing offers a starting salary of 150,000 roubles per month and requires only basic technical skills.
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Russia posted an advertisement seeking drone operators for a volunteer unit tasked with protecting Moscow. The listing appeared on the country's largest jobs website, HeadHunter, and was updated on July 1. The ad states that no prior experience is required and lists duties including pre-flight preparation, reconnaissance flights, and data collection by day and night.
Pay begins at 150,000 roubles, about $1,950 per month, below the Moscow average of more than 200,000 roubles.
At least two people died in Russian border regions and several industrial sites were damaged during Ukrainian drone attacks overnight on Friday, local authorities and media said. Ukrainian strikes also hit two airfields in occupied Crimea, damaging or destroying jets and drone warehouses at Hvardiyske and Saky.
Ukrainian officials reported that four people were killed and ten injured in Russian overnight attacks on Ukraine. The acting governor of Bryansk said a man died in a village after a kamikaze drone attack, while the governor of Smolensk reported a fire at an industrial site following a drone strike with no injuries.
Russia this week carried out its deadliest strike of the year on Kyiv, killing at least 30 people.
