(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 4, 2024: Conscription has been disappearing since the Cold War and the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991. Russia kept it going but the number of conscripts who showed up declined each year. In ...

MINSK, 4 March (BelTA) – Viktor Tumar, Deputy Chief for Research of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, commented on how Belarusian conscripts are changing in a new episode of BelTA’s project The ...