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 ...

After Russian police started using facial-recognition cameras to identify men wanted by military authorities, a young bank worker spent weeks avoiding the Moscow metro. In Moscow, facial-recognition ...

The Russian military continues to take heavy losses in the fighting. But despite losing more than 600,000 men, Russian President Vladimir Putin is resisting calls to send conscripts to Ukraine. A ...

February 18, 2026: Families of Russian soldiers have been complaining about the harsh treatment their sons, fathers, husbands and brothers have received while fighting in Ukraine. Nearly 2,000 of them ...