Russia looks to students to make up for mounting losses in Ukraine

• The 23-year-old is among the first Russian students known to have been killed in Ukraine after signing up as part of a new large-scale drive to recruit young people f
• "He studied drones for three months - and yet they still threw him into a frontal assault, into the meat grinder," said Valery Averin's foster mother Oksana Afanayeva.
• "He had never even served in the army," Afanasyeva complained.