Russian conscript Vitaly Izmailov was sent to Russia’s border with Ukraine expecting a calm end to his year of mandatory service. With the main battles happening to the south and east ...

Russian losses in Ukraine hit a massive, and grim milestone on June 12 — 1 million Russian soldiers killed or wounded during ...

the grandmother of one Russian conscript who was serving in Kursk and is now considered missing. She said her grandson Vladislav had been stationed – without any weapons – in a village some ...

In Soviet times, Russia kept a conscript army of several million men. The families of those dispatched to Afghanistan were told that the soldiers were building schools and planting trees.

Russia's military will boost recruitment of young men as it seeks to expand its number of active troops. The Russian Defence Ministry has pledged the new recruits will not be sent to the "special ...

And now the government has announced plans to conscript more than 160,000 Ukrainians. This as Russia advances in Ukraine's East. Andrew Weiss is a former U.S. national security official who ...