Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Military Medical Examination Commission can no longer use their own discretion when determining a person's ...

Valentyna Romanenko - Saturday, 30 April 2022, 12:52 The Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine reports that the occupiers have cancelled the medical examination for ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

A proposed revision of military physical classifications is still under review, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) said yesterday, amid criticism that the rules violate human rights by reclassifying ...

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Russian nongovernmental organization Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg says two conscripts in Leningrad Oblast died recently due to lack of medical care, RFE/RL's Russian ...