Far-right religious parties are backing the bill with a view to inserting changes and limiting conscription. The Israeli Knesset has voted to revive a bill that would end exemption on military conscription for some ultra-Orthodox religious students. The vote came one day after former general and war cabinet minister Benny Gantz and former army chief Gadi Eisenkot resigned from the …
Law obliges men to update their draft data, increases payments to volunteers and adds new punishments for draft dodging. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed into law a bill overhauling army mobilisation rules as Ukraine seeks to address acute troop shortages in its fight against Russia’s invasion. Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, reporting from Lyman in eastern Ukraine, said the law …
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill allowing authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists amid the fighting in Ukraine. Russia’s military service rules previously required the in-person delivery of notices to conscripts and reservists who are called up for duty. Under the new law, the notices issued by local military conscription offices will continue to be …
