In fatigues and body armor, Matthieu dives to the concrete floor and fires off a volley from his rifle, watched by half a dozen recruits in safety goggles and helmets. A 26-year-old strategy ...

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 MacFarquhar ...

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 into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The parliament's National Security and Defense Committee supported a bill changing conditions for the demobilization of conscripts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A battalion of Russian conscripts from Voronezh Oblast (Russia) was destroyed near the village of Makiyivka, Svatove district, ...

Russia has finished drafting 150,000 conscripts into its military, its Defense Ministry said Monday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned he needs more fighter jets and missile defense ...

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 ...

Conscripts entering not only the Army but also the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps will now undergo pre-enlistment medical and psychological screenings by the Military Manpower Administration (MMA) ...

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to enroll into the army 147,000 conscripts aged between 18 and 27 during the spring draft. The spring drafting period in Russia will start April 1 and end June ...