Recruits in Moscow were offered to exchange their military service for an annual contract with UAV soldiers. The capital's military commissar, Maxim Loktev, said in an interview with TASS that recruitment in the city has become "more technologically advanced". He noted that recruits learn about UAVs already at the recruiting station and attempts are made to interest them.
"Participation in the practical training is voluntary, the opportunity to experience as a UAV operator has an educational nature - in the past the recruits only heard about UAVs, everyone knows about the restrictions on flying over Moscow, so everything happens in simulators. It is not a full test, but an attempt to interest the recruit in choosing a military specialty.
Not the result is valued, but the matter. There are no percentages, cuts or thresholds for UAV operators at this stage. The decision on matching to a certain specialty is still made later."
Loktev also noted that most of the recruits in Moscow are sent to the ground forces, where there is the greatest need for renewal. And for example, only a small part of Muscovites serve in the navy.