The Ukrainian project "Want to Live" published on June 3 a list of 1059 students from Russian universities, technical schools, and colleges who signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and joined the drone forces. "Novaya-Evropa" studied it and was able to partially verify it. Details. As the authors of the project note, more than half of the participants in the list are first or second-year students. 80% of the list are young men aged 18 to 21. Is this a fake? "Novaya-Evropa" selectively checked 37 students from this list and confirmed their personal data, occupation, and place of study. Four young men contacted by the correspondent confirmed that they are students and have signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to participate in the drone forces. One of the students, who was in his final year of medical specialty, told "Novaya-Evropa" that he signed a one-year contract in March 2026. As a result, he was sent to a UAV repair company. "I was studying under a targeted contract, and the contract now gives me the opportunity to switch to a state-funded place," he explained his decision. Oddities. The list includes mentions of students from the European part of Russia, but their total number is very small - for example, in the Kursk region, Stavropol Krai, and Nizhny Novgorod region, one person was recruited from each. There are also two students from the Moscow region on the list: one is a third-year student at MSUTM named after K.G. Razumovsky (originally from the Penza region), and the second is a fourth-year student at the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB of Russia (originally from Chuvashia). Why other universities in Moscow or St. Petersburg are not included in the document is unknown. "Want to Live" did not answer "Novaya-Evropa's" question about where they obtained this list. What can be found in the list. The largest part of the list consists of students from Siberia, the Urals, and the Volga region - in particular, 42 regions are included in the list. The most "popular" regions in terms of the number of recruited students are: Kemerovo region (129 people), Krasnoyarsk Krai (99), Penza region (76), Tatarstan (69), and Novosibirsk region (58). Most often, students from secondary and vocational educational institutions appear in the lists. Despite this, recruited students from prestigious universities can be found in the list: SFU (17 people), TSU (11), SUSU (11), Tyumen State University (seven), UrFU (five), and KFU (two).