Russia-Ukraine Daily News🇷🇺 College director fumed that she had expected “her kids” — around 400 students over the age of 18 — to be “the first to go and defend their Fatherland.”
“Who put the fear into you? Who will protect us?” she asked at a meeting with students, which was recorded by one of the attendants and published online.
“Are you all cowards here sitting and being scared for your lives?” she said, scolding students for what she called a fear of returning home “in zinc coffins.”
‘Are You All Cowards?’: Russian Universities Pressure Students to Fight in Ukraine
When military recruiters arrived at the Lunin College of Transport Technologies in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk last month, they hoped they would find students willing to enlist as drone operators — but few took up the offer.