Russia to employ 12,000 North Koreans for drone production in Tatarstan — Ukrainian intel
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Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:13:00 +0200

The Main Intelligence Directorate reported the information.It is at these enterprises that long-range Shahed/Geran-type drones are produced, which the Russian army uses for attacks on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure.According to intelligence, the details of attracting workers were discussed at the end of October at a meeting between Russian government officials and representatives of the North Korean company Jihyang Technology Trade Company, which is responsible for selecting workers from the DPRK.The Russians promise to pay foreign workers about 2.5 U.S. dollars per hour, with a work shift lasting at least 12 hours."Such measures indicate a deepening strategic cooperation between the two dictatorships to continue the aggressive war against Ukraine," summarized the Main Intelligence Directorate.At the end of July, CNN wrote that satellite images show a sharp acceleration of construction at the Alabuga plant in southern Russia, where Shahed-type drones are produced.And at the end of August, a tower with a Pantsir anti-aircraft missile system module was being built on the territory of the Alabuga special economic zone to protect the enterprise producing Shaheds, which then attack Ukraine.






