Investigators descend on Ukraine’s recruitment offices in a coordinated nationwide operation
The operation, run with the army's General Staff, reached most regions on 30 July and is expected to produce named suspects.
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$10,000 per person: Moldova arrests 11 drivers in Ukrainian male smuggling network
Eleven taxi drivers in Moldova have been detained on suspicion of smuggling roughly 400 Ukrainian men out of the country for fees reaching $10,000 per crossing, Moldova's anti-organised crime prosecutors said.
Promised “safe service,” Ukrainians in occupied Kherson are thrown into Russia’s front-line meat grinder to fight against their own people
Despite assurances they would not see combat, at least thousands of men drafted by Russia in the occupied region are being sent into active fighting after short training.
ISW: Putin orders semi-annual draft while turning conscription into year-round bureaucracy to dodge mobilization bottlenecks
A shift that could let Russia tap more reservists later without public mobilization shock.
Forbes: Elite Ukrainian unit overwhelmed with 900 volunteers each month while army forces draft
A converted shipping container in Ukraine's capital houses an unlikely solution to military recruitment: a drone training program so popular it turns away qualified applicants while other units struggle to fill their ranks.
To win in a war of attrition, Ukraine should mobilize women, report argues
As casualties mount and draft-eligible men dwindle, a Ukrainian report is sparking debate over mobilizing women to sustain the nation's defense against Russia's protracted invasion, citing Britain's auxiliary forces that freed 450,000 men in World War II.