Since spring 2026, the video game Drone Battle: Ukraine has been heavily promoted on social media and by bloggers. According to T-invariant, the management of the Alabuga Special Economic Zone uses the game to recruit students to assemble drones.
The game is a tactical simulator in which players command a unit of unmanned forces. Its patent was registered by Timur Shagivaleyev, the CEO of the Alabuga SEZ. Drone Battle: Ukraine is available in Russian, English, and Chinese.
I know this is an unpopular opinion and I’m not defending Russia, but doesn’t western countries do that too, only more subtlety?
There’s plenty of video games in that genre in the west too. I have a few co-workers playing war video games that at some point told me they would go defend the west against those barbarian in the desert and kill some terrorists.
Doesn’t the US army has its own video games too? Doesn’t the US army also lurk in the gaming world to recruit gamers?
They’re not debating who’s worse, they’re saying games are being used to recruit kids. How you feel about that is up to you.
How to encourage young people to murder others? Let them play their favorite game IRL without them actually being on the battlefield. This world goes down with each day…