Sources: Daily Mail
Local media outlets report that Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided shopping centers, bars, restaurants, and a large concert venue across several Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv to detain men not in compliance with conscription orders. 2024-10-12
Myanmar's military junta announces that all men aged 18 to 35 and all women aged 18 to 27 will be required to complete two years of mandatory military service, amid territorial losses to anti-military junta forces in the ongoing civil war. 2024-02-11
Uzbekistan says that it will not deport Russians fleeing conscription. 2022-09-30
Latvia plans to reintroduce conscription, which had been abolished in 2006, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The final decision will be determined by the country's parliament, the Saeima. 2022-07-6
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
Ukrainian forces battle pro-Russian rebels near Luhansk International Airport. The area is encircled by the pro-Russian forces for over 3 weeks. 2014-09-1
The Red Cross officially declares the fighting in Ukraine as a civil war. The formal classification means participants in the fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east could eventually be prosecuted for war crimes in international courts. 2014-07-23
Pro-Russian group Vostok Battalion seize control of the headquarters of the Donetsk Peoples Republic in a coup d'état, plunging the rebels into chaos. 2014-05-29
Washington accuses Moscow of fomenting unrest in the east, with Obama threatening the possibility of applying additional sanctions on Russia. 2014-04-24
A skirmish on the Ukrainian military base in Mariupol by pro-Russian militants results in the deaths of 3 of the militants, the wounding of another 13, and the capture of 63 others. 2014-04-17