Sources: Daily Mail
Ukraine finalizes military reforms aimed at recruiting 18- to 25-year-olds to the armed forces, penalizing draft dodgers, and lowering the minimum compulsory military service age to 25 from 27. 2025-01-24
The government of Sweden submits a bill to the Riksdag to reintroduce conscription this summer in response to new global security challenges. 2017-03-2
The pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, who are now in great danger of being encircled by the Ukraine government forces, renew their calls for Russia to send troops and arms to their aid. 2014-08-3
The United States says it has evidence that Russia is firing artillery across the border into Ukraine to target Ukrainian military positions in the conflict against pro-Russian separatists. 2014-07-24
The bodies of crash victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are returned from Eastern Ukraine to the Netherlands together with flight recorders from the flight. 2014-07-23
Pro-Russian separatist commander Alexander Khodakovsky of the Vostok Battalion confirms that the rebels did possess the BUK missile system - believed to have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 - originating from Russia, and it could have been sent back to Russia subsequently to remove proof of its presence. 2014-07-23
Separatist rebels take all the 196 bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to an undisclosed location. 2014-07-20
The Ukrainian Air Force conducts airstrikes on Donetsk International Airport while paratroopers drop in to fight pro-Russian separatists. 2014-05-26
Pro-Russian rebels quickly withdraw from Mariupol as dozens of unarmed pro-Ukraine steelworkers with some employed by System Capital Management joined by the police start to patrol the city. 2014-05-16
Pro-Russian activists attack the police headquarters in Odesa, forcing the release of several people held over deadly violence two days before. 2014-05-4