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 ...

The Russian Defense Ministry is seeking to make it more difficult for conscripts to secure medical exemptions from military service, including those diagnosed with syphilis, high blood pressure, and ...

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 ...

Russia's has hardened its once-avoidable conscription system amid the war In Moscow, facial-recognition cameras and a unified recruitment system have made men easier to find and faster to process Last ...

As in the previous army drafts, Russian conscripts had the right to choose military service in various military branches and armed services, considering their health condition and the results of ...