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Months into the war, Russia conducted a 'partial mobilization' for several chaotic weeks, drafting as many as 300,000 additional personnel.

An estimated 14,000 people were killed and millions displaced in Donbas between 2014-2022, and the ICC found evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The UN has documented violations against POWs by Russian-affiliated mercenary operatives from the now-dissolved Wagner Group, including enforced disappearances, ill-treatment, and extrajudicial executions.

Ukrainian and Russian forces have committed abuses against prisoners of war, including torture and ill-treatment.

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has verified damage to at least 515 cultural and religious sites.

The World Health Organization has verified over 2,828 attacks on healthcare since February 2022.

Schools, homes, water and sanitation systems, energy-related infrastructure, and civilian shelters have been routinely targeted.

The HRMMU has documented widespread use of heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, unguided missiles, airstrikes, and illegal cluster munitions in populated areas.

At least 2,514 people were killed and 12,142 injured in 2025, marking a 31% increase compared to 2024.

The command of the 5th and 110th brigades organized a 'concentration camp' for its own soldiers in the basements of the abandoned Petrovskaya coal mine.

Russia operates a network of at least 23 detention sites where wounded soldiers and deserters are starved and tortured, often in abandoned buildings in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Since February 24, 2022, there have been anti-war protests in Russia, with over 19,700 detentions and 730 suspects or convicts as of mid-June 2023.

Zelenyj's unit liberated Nestryha in the Dnieper Delta on April 28, 2024, and he personally sank at least two Russian assault boats using a Browning heavy machine gun.

As the Russians retreated from Kherson, they loaded much of the museum's collection onto trucks and took it to Russian-annexed Crimea.

Alina Dotsenko returned to her museum after Ukrainian forces retook Kherson in late 2022 and found thousands of artworks had vanished.

The most common weapons and tactics involved explosives and incendiaries.

Russian forces appear to be intensifying the tempo of their offensive operations in Donetsk Oblast while decreasing the rate of attacks in northern Kharkiv Oblast.

The original video, posted by Russia's elite Rubicon drone unit, shows their drones destroying a Ukrainian M1 Abrams tank, a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle, and a M1117 armored mobility vehicle, as well as several hits on individual soldiers in the field.

New recruits believe the draft to be a death sentence until expectations are tempered by reality.

At a recruitment center in Dnipro, mannequins model uniforms, but few locals seek to enlist, with more online interviews with foreign volunteers.

Draft dodging is an issue, with some residents hiding in apartments and recruitment teams deployed to seek out avoiders.

Ukraine's conscription system has sharpened since the 2022 invasion, with the draft age dropping to 25 in 2024.

Another man was dragged into an unmarked van by soldiers for conscription.

A Ukrainian military policeman approached the author in Dnipro to check for draft dodging, but the author showed a foreign passport and was released.

On August 1, police in Vinnytsia used tear gas to disperse a crowd trying to storm a conscription office and release about 100 men.

In one case, patrol officers hit a bicyclist with their car, beat and tear-gassed him to deliver him to a conscription office, and later volunteered for the front to avoid charges.

Between January and June, the Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman's office received over 2,000 complaints about the use of force by conscription patrols.

Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify all details of Artem's story, but some allegations corroborate other cases of conscription-related coercion and corruption.

Artem, a 29-year-old from Zakarpattia, claims he was beaten and forced by a conscription patrol to attempt to cross the Slovakian border, then paid $17,000 for release and a fake permit.

Nikopol is a regular target of bombardment as it faces Russian-occupied territory across the Dnipro river.

Three women and two men were killed, and a 14-year-old girl was among the wounded, according to Oleksandr Hanzha.

On December 11, 2023, the Krynychky District Court sentenced a man to three years in prison for evading military service, but released him on probation for two years.

The military points out the need to replace fighters, while the government argues this should have been addressed two years ago.

This is the second attempt by MPs to address mobilization after President Zelenskyy announced an additional request from the General Staff for 500,000 recruits.

Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi referred to former heads of recruitment centers as professionals.

Sources in military structures said this decision brought more problems than results, as former heads were professionals and new leaders have to learn in combat conditions.

President Zelenskyi's decree on general mobilization has been in force since 24 February 2022.

General sentiments have intensified due to corruption scandals involving military enlistment offices.

Toward the end of the second year of the war, the number of volunteers has decreased, indicating weariness and uncertainty about the war's duration.

In the first months, many people volunteered, with queues at military enlistment offices.

By summer 2022, official sources claimed about 700,000 people were fighting on the front lines.

Soldiers at the front need to be replaced and losses replenished.

Some experts say the UK may be too late to defend itself.

The UK government is working to increase defense spending, place more sanctions on Russia, and launch schemes to identify Russia's threat.

Men between 27 and 60 were initially eligible for the draft and barred from leaving the country under martial law.

As volunteers dropped, the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned more to the draft for fresh recruits.

Ukraine's government has said it needs many more fighters to maintain its defense and push back Russia from occupied territories.

The situation has created a divide in Ukrainian society between those who fight and those who don't.

Governmental mismanagement and misinformation have led to hundreds of thousands of men skirting the law while those already serving wait endlessly for reinforcements.

A national draft was instituted on the first day of the full-scale invasion to fill the ranks with conscripts.