Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Military Medical Examination Commission can no longer use their own discretion when determining a person's ...

Heading towards a conscription centre in northern Moscow, 22-year-old paramedic Grigory braved drizzly weather to find out if he needed to complete his year-long military service. Though the tens of ...

The defence ministry announced on Friday the launch of the digital service “e-registration” for conscripts of the national guard intake, with the platform now open for the submission of selection data ...

The long-sacrosanct practice of keeping young Russian army conscripts off the front lines is eroding as the lack of troops in Russia’s Kursk region indicates a manpower shortage. By Neil MacFarquhar ...

Ukraine’s parliament passed a law Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts, following months of delay and after thousands of amendments were submitted to water down the ...

In March 2022, weeks after ordering a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to "mothers, wives, sisters, and fiancees" that he would deploy only "professional ...

The fall draft was organized especially effectively in the Republics of Buryatia and North Ossetia-Alania, the Krasnoyarsk, Stavropol, Volgograd, Voronezh, Moscow, Rostov, Sakhalin, Samara and ...

KYIV, UkraineKYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s parliament has passed a controversial law to boost much-needed conscripts and fill army ranks.