In Wartime Russia, Students Trade Classrooms for Gun Ranges
Fourteen-year-old Russian schoolboy David learned this month that firing a Kalashnikov is trickier than a pistol. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
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00:00 14-year-old Russian schoolboy David learned this month that firing a Kalashnikov is trickier
00:06 than a pistol.
00:07 As part of basic military training, which was reintroduced after Russia's war in Ukraine
00:11 began, David and his classmates swapped classrooms for the shooting range.
00:16 "It's easier to fire a pistol, and it's more difficult to take aim with an assault rifle,"
00:20 said David.
00:21 The firearms practice, he believes, will make life easier in the future, reports Reuters.
00:27 Military service is compulsory for young men in Russia, whose war in Ukraine is now well
00:31 into its third year.
00:33 Reuters reports the students are being told that training would help them fulfill their
00:37 military duty within a team if they ever had to fight.
00:41 The education ministry mandated basic military training in schools in late 2022, part of
00:46 the Basics of Life Safety curriculum.
00:49 Critics viewed this as an increase in militarization since the war began.
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