On January 30, 2026, a Russian military court issued the first sentence in a case involving theft from a classified Defense Ministry facility in the Leningrad region. Seven service members — four ...

The Russian military has two conscription cycles that take place twice a year, one in the spring and another in the fall. On the last days of September, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the ...

After receiving a call-up notice and undergoing a fitness check, conscripts are sent to a military barracks to begin basic training. Here, they begin a process of transformation: putting on a military ...

Russian conscripts are taking their own lives to avoid fighting in Ukraine, according to local media reports. Vladimir Putin announced a "partial mobilisation" towards the end of September in a bid to ...