Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apti Alaudinov, the Chechen special forces leader, said: 'If you die defending your homeland, you will go to heaven' - Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the Chechen Akhmat Regiment fighting for Russia, said in a video on Aug. 19 that Russian ...

Vladimir Putin has shut down multiple border crossings as he prepares to call up hundreds of thousands of fresh conscripts to ...

The Russian military continues to take heavy losses in the fighting. But despite losing more than 600,000 men, Russian President Vladimir Putin is resisting calls to send conscripts to Ukraine. A ...

In August, Russian conscripts Konstantin and Dmitry Reshka -- 20-year-old twin brothers -- died on the border with Ukraine near Belgorod. In their native village of Karpovka in the Siberian Omsk ...

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 Russian police started using facial-recognition cameras to identify men wanted by military authorities, a young bank worker spent weeks avoiding the Moscow metro. In Moscow, facial-recognition ...

(CNN) — 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 ...