On January 30, 2026, a Russian military court issued the first sentence in a case involving theft from a classified Defense Ministry facility in the Leningrad region. Seven service members — four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on March 7 ordering to transfer some conscripts of compulsory basic military service ...

The annual spring decree calling up around 150,000 conscripts to the Russian military signed by President Vladimir Putin was published in Moscow on Sunday in line with longstanding practice. The ...

(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 ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued a decree on March 7 providing for prewar conscripts still serving in the two-year-old war against Russia to be discharged into Ukraine's reserves within the next ...

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 ...

Young people called up for conscription service who cannot speak Estonian at the B1 level will be required to undertake state-funded year-long mandatory language courses in the future and delay their ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament passed a controversial law Thursday that will govern how the country calls up new soldiers at a time when it needs to replenish depleted forces who are ...

(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued a decree on Thursday providing for conscripts serving in the two-year-old war against Russia to be discharged into Ukraine's reserves within the next ...