Two military instructors and 11 senior conscripts were on Tuesday sentenced to between 10 and 20 years in jail for the fatal ...

Putin has promised repeatedly that young Russian conscripts would not be deployed in combat with Ukrainian forces. But dozens ...

That pledge quickly rang hollow, with numerous reports that young conscripts were being coerced into signing military contracts almost immediately after induction and shipped to the front line in ...

The new Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) ration packs, while still with their defects, are more varied, tastier and better ...

Recently, a video featuring conscripts from Yakutia riding horseback across a field surfaced. Ukrainians mockingly say this ...

The long-sacrosanct practice of keeping young Russian army conscripts off the front lines is eroding as the lack of troops in Russia’s Kursk region indicates a manpower shortage. By Neil ...

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 deeper ...

New conscripts undergo one to two months of basic training, followed by three to six months of advanced training before arriving at their assigned units. Current law states that conscripts cannot ...

Many are among Russia’s youngest men: conscripts fulfilling their year-long mandatory military service who were never supposed to see combat, let alone enter Ukraine. The capture of so many ...

Packed into Ukrainian prison cells, dozens of captured Russian conscripts lay on cots or sat on wooden benches, wearing flip-flops and, in one instance, watching cartoons on a television provided ...