Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that martial law entails the mobilisation of citizens aged 25 and older, and that to bring Ukrainian soldiers home, Russia should be forced to end ...

openDemocracy spoke to three Russian men about their fears of being drafted and how they have coped in the past year A year ago today (21 September), the Russian authorities announced the start of ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has commented on the draft law adopted by the Ukrainian parliament to improve certain issues of mobilisation, military registration, and military service.

On September 21, the Russian President ordered a partial mobilisation for some of the country’s citizens as a means to combat the scale of Moscow troop casualties from the war. Since March, General ...

“A week ago you could have called it relocating, but now the whole situation is like a stampede,” Oleg* wrote to openDemocracy on Telegram. In the week since Vladimir Putin announced a mobilisation of ...

Moscow (AFP) – Ivan Nesterov, a well-built fitness trainer, came back to Russia six months after fleeing the mobilisation that propped up Russian forces fighting in Ukraine last fall. Like Nesterov, ...

Russia has failed to choose any one reserve system following the end of the Cold War, which will impact the efficacy of its mobilised forces. However, the mobilisation indicates a willingness to ...

RUSLAN KUBAY was surprised to receive a draft notice in late January. Registered as seriously disabled since childhood—Mr Kubay is missing both hands—he falls under a list of automatic exemptions from ...

On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the first large-scale military mobilisation since World War II. In a televised speech, he said that the draft was needed to protect the ...