Zelenskiy warns MPs, judges and military officials against ‘opposition to the state’ as two landmark cases come to light; Russia expands upper conscription age from 27 to 30
Russia’s parliament has voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be conscripted to 30 from 27, increasing the number of young men liable for a year of compulsory military service.
The bill comes as Moscow seeks to replenish its forces on the frontline in Ukraine without resorting to another mobilisation – a step the Kremlin took last September which proved unpopular.
