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Old men belong here. How Ukrainian Armed Forces have become 40+ age army and whether lowering mobilisation age will affect combat capability

Ukrainska Pravda explains why the Armed Forces of Ukraine have become an army of fighters aged 40+, how this affects their combat capability, and whether the law lowering the mobilisation age to 25, will change the situation.

Putin issues decree to call up 150,000 people over 18 for military service

Zelenskyy thinks public discussion of mobilisation bill is only right

Putin directs enlistment offices to include Russians in military register in absentia

Soldiers should know in advance when they will be discharged from service – Ukraine's Defence Minister

Total of 650,000 men of conscription age have left Ukraine for Europe since beginning of war

Defence Ministry signs second agreement on recruiting for Armed Forces

Parliament's Defence Committee suggests mobilising not only to Armed Forces but also to companies of military-industrial complex

Finland expects more Russian deserters after Russia tightens conscription laws

Attacks on enlistment offices in Russia: 28 buildings set on fire in 5 days

Putin allows taking passports away from conscripts

Electronic military draft notices in Russia: Kremlin states there is no new wave of mobilisation

Electronic military draft notices sent out in St Petersburg, Russia

Conscripts are tracked by CCTV cameras in Moscow

Electronic conscription notices to be sent out this spring in Moscow

Belarus proposes to conscript students, as USSR did during Afghanistan war

Russia wants to distribute draft notices online: evaders will be banned from leaving country

Putin announces spring draft aiming to recruit almost 150,000 people

Russia wants to raise conscription age to 30 this spring

Russia wants to bring back 2 years of military service

Shoigu assures Russians that conscripts will not be sent to combat zones in Ukraine

Putin signs new decree, calling up 120,000 Russians

Ukraine's Armed Forces captures 21-year-old Russian conscript soldier