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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian conscripts line up during a ceremony before their departure for garrisons from a recruitment headquarters in Gatchina in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The last time Liana spoke to her husband Husain before he was captured by Ukrainian troops, he said what he always told her: "Everything is fine." Husain, a 21-year-old conscripted ...

Some 133,000 people are about to be called up for military service in Russia as part of a traditional autumn conscription campaign, where all men aged between 18 and 30 who are not reservists and are ...

The Russian military continues to take heavy losses in the fighting. But despite losing more than 600,000 men, Russian President Vladimir Putin is resisting calls to send conscripts to Ukraine. A ...

The Russian military has two conscription cycles that take place twice a year, one in the spring and another in the fall. On the last days of September, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the ...