Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko claims that NATO countries are deliberately hunting for participants in the special military operation who have engineering and technical expertise. Speaking at the 5th Congress of Young Scientists, he stressed that university rectors and heads of research institutions should treat this issue with particular attention.

Chernyshenko said that, in his view, academic and scientific leaders need to «look closely» at such specialists, noting that combat veterans from the special operation who are engineers possess exactly the skills now in high demand. He argued that, across the world and specifically in NATO states, there is an active search for «tech specialists» with combat experience.

The deputy prime minister also pointed out that involving veterans of the special operation with an engineering background could significantly speed up the development of technological sciences and add real substantive weight to the projects being designed.