OREANDA-NEWS In Russia, they are thinking about allocating drones to a separate type of military. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin during a press conference following a state visit to Kazakhstan and the CSTO summit. The broadcast is carried out on the official Telegram channel of the Kremlin.

Answering a question from journalists about whether operators of unmanned aerial vehicles should be allocated to a separate type of military, the head of state stressed that the General Staff and the Russian Defense Ministry are already thinking about this.

Putin added that the head of the defense department, Andrei Belousov, despite his economic education, is well versed in unmanned systems and was engaged in them even as the first deputy chairman of the government.