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Ukraine’s ‘busification’ raids spark fear, anger, silence

In Ukraine, “busification” has become more than street slang for forceful draft detentions. It is now a quiet calculation many people make each day — which streets to avoid, when to take out their phone, and whether an encounter with the state will follow the law or test its limits.

12 December 2025, 05:34 PM

Russia ramping up operations in Moldova's breakaway Transnistria region

Russia is urgently ramping up operations in Moldova's Transnistria region — the so-called “PMR” — to divert Ukrainian resources toward the growing threat from the Russian enclave, NV sources said on Dec. 10.

10 December 2025, 05:19 PM

Partisans disable Russia’s key mobilization website

A major cyberattack on Russia’s electronic draft-notice system was carried out, disabling the country’s key mobilization registry, the Atesh resistance movement said on Dec. 3.

3 December 2025, 06:00 PM

Ukraine to revise manpower distribution across brigades—Zelenskyy

The allocation of freshly mobilized troops across the brigades of Ukraine’s Armed Forces will be reviewed, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Nov. 26.

26 November 2025, 09:51 PM

Ex-AWOL soldiers often super-effective, says Da Vince Wolves commander

The ability to choose a unit, military specialization and increased payments could help attract Ukrainians to the army — as shown by troops returning from AWOL to new units, Da Vinci Wolves battalion commander Serhiy Filimonov said in a big Radio NV interview on Nov. 7, commenting on Ukraine's military conscription challenges.

9 November 2025, 06:26 PM

Russia recruits teens from jails for Myrnohrad push

Russia's 9th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, currently positioned near Myrnohrad in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, recently received reinforcements of several dozen new recruits. Most are former inmates who have just turned 18, NV’s sources in Ukraine's Armed Forces said on Nov. 3.

3 November 2025, 07:07 PM

600,000 draft deferments to be auto-extended in Ukraine

Over 600,000 Ukrainians will have conscription deferments automatically extended by the end of October without visits to recruitment centers, the Defense Ministry announced on Oct. 24.

28 October 2025, 12:15 PM

Ukraine's Rada extends martial law, conscription until February

Ukraine's parliament has approved extending martial law and general mobilization for 90 days, effective Nov. 5 until Feb. 3, 2026, marking the 17th such extension since Russia's full-scale invasion, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak of the Golos faction reported on Telegram.

21 October 2025, 03:40 PM

Zelenskyy submits bills to prolong martial law and general mobilization for 90 more days

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proposed extending martial law and general mobilization in Ukraine for another 90 days, according to draft bills submitted to the Verkhovna Rada on Oct. 20.

20 October 2025, 02:17 PM

SBU and National Police detain 20 organizers of draft evasion schemes operating across Ukraine

Ukraine’s Security Service said, together with the National Police, it blocked new draft evasion schemes and detained 20 organizers who charged between $3,000 and $14,000 to help men avoid mobilization on Oct. 16.

16 October 2025, 07:00 PM

Kremlin may send reservists to war in Ukraine without formal mobilization — ISW

The Kremlin is preparing to lift some limits on using its reservists in combat, thus, allowing Moscow to avoid declaring a mobilization, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote on Oct. 13.

14 October 2025, 10:27 AM

Putin risks world war with conscription, Zelenskyy warns

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's potential conscription campaign could signal the start of a world war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during a meeting with journalists on Oct. 8, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

9 October 2025, 02:16 PM

SBU detains former Cabinet official and university staff involved in draft evasion schemes

Six draft evasion schemes operating across several oblasts of Ukraine were dismantled, with 14 organizers detained, including a former Cabinet official and university administrators, Ukraine’s Security Service said on Oct. 7.

7 October 2025, 05:56 PM

Germany's CSU leader Söder calls for Ukrainian men to return and fight

Markus Söder, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Bavarian premier, suggested sending able-bodied Ukrainian male refugees back to Ukraine to “protect the homeland,” he told Rheinische Post in an interview on Sept. 6.

6 September 2025, 04:10 PM

Mobilization to continue even after ceasefire, official says

The general mobilization in Ukraine will continue for the foreseeable future even if a ceasefire deal is reached, Col. Pavlo Palisa, deputy head of the President’s Office, said on Sept. 2.

3 September 2025, 12:49 AM

How video recording, detention, and delivery to enlistment centers are carried out in Ukraine

Starting Sept. 1, Ukraine planned to require military enlistment office staff to wear body cameras during street document checks, but no legal changes have been adopted, and current law mandates video recording of interactions only beginning in 2024.

1 September 2025, 03:52 PM

Most military recruitment incidents faked – Command North

During August, 41 incidents involving representatives of Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers were reported in areas under the jurisdiction of Ukraine’s Operational Command North, according to its Aug. 31 report.

31 August 2025, 04:50 PM

Twins stranded on roadside after single father drafted by military enlistment officials

In Zaporizhzhya, military enlistment officials mobilized a single father of two and, according to his sister, left his seven-year-old twins by the roadside near a checkpoint, authorities said he lacked military registration documents and deferment records on Aug. 29.

30 August 2025, 01:02 AM

Ukrainians under 22 can now freely travel abroad

The Cabinet has updated the rules for crossing the state border under martial law, allowing all men between the ages of 18 and 22 to travel abroad freely, Ukrainian PM Yulia Svyrydenko announced on Aug. 26.

26 August 2025, 08:37 PM

More draft-age Ukrainians are fleeing to Belarus

Twice as many draft-age Ukrainian men attempted to cross into Belarus in the first seven months of 2025 as in the entire previous three years of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian journalists at Slidstvo.info reported on Aug. 25.

26 August 2025, 02:11 AM

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