A Russian news outlet aired a TV program featuring footage from the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan, showing schoolchildren and college students assembling Shahed-136 drones. These students are both studying and working at the factory. According to multiple investigations, young workers were forced to work excessive hours without adequate rest or food, and those who either refused to work or failed to meet expectations were punished or threatened with expulsion from college.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Alabuga Special Economic Zone to respond. The company did not reply.