Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering the conscription of 135,000 men for military service, the ...

Members of the Military Medical Examination Commission can no longer use their own discretion when determining a person's eligibility for the military, the Defense Ministry said on May 4. President ...

What You Need to Know: As Russian casualties in Ukraine surpass 650,000, President Vladimir Putin faces growing pressure to deploy conscripts. Despite these losses, Putin is resisting calls to send ...

(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin made a big promise when he launched his war on Ukraine: conscripts would not be involved in combat. But as Moscow struggles to contain Ukrainian advances ...

In December 2023, along with tens of thousands of other 18-year-old men, Aleksandr, from the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, was called up for mandatory military service in the Russian armed forces. Four ...

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 Russian army is conscripting people with medical conditions that should make them unfit for military service. — Ukrinform ...

In the basement of a prison in northeastern Ukraine, dozens of Russian soldiers – some wounded, most barely adults – sat huddled on metal bunk beds Friday, dressed in mismatched T-shirts and flip ...