But this was not enough to keep pace with mounting casualties. The government saw no alternative but to increase numbers by conscription – compulsory active service. Parliament was deeply divided but ...
The Government of the Russian Federation supported, taking into account the comments, a draft law according to which a decision on conscription, which was not executed during the conscription period, ...
The Russian government has approved new measures to streamline the conscription process, making it easier to draft young men into the Armed Forces, including those who previously evaded service, The ...
Over 700 young people have already expressed their willingness to do military service, according to Arunas Balciunas, director of the army's Military Conscription and Recruitment Service. Students can ...
Conscription in one form or another has been utilized by nations to fill the ranks of their armed forces since way back in history, and though highly controversial, is a practice that continues to ...
A man armed with a hunting rifle shot dead a Ukrainian army recruitment soldier on Saturday and escaped with a conscript before both were caught, authorities said. The recruitment official was ...
Just grief.” She is not alone. The United States, Kyiv's main military backer, has called on Ukraine to lower the conscription age from 25 to 18 as the country struggles to fend off advancing ...
Few topics are more talked about than the conscription crisis—whether the law is fair, whether draft evaders are right or wrong, and how a country without enough soldiers can hope to defeat a ...