draftee

Example Sentences

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Russian officials said this week that new draftees will not immediately be sent to the front lines in Ukraine.

From Washington Times

Meanwhile the capital, Moscow, ended its mobilisation drive on Monday saying it had reached its quota of draftees.

From BBC

Moscow Mayor Sobyanin has presented himself as a leader in trimming mobilisation excesses, ordering payments to draftees' families, and for cases of mistaken conscription to be corrected.

From Reuters

Inevitably, some draftees have already been killed or captured, stirring ever harsher criticism of the mobilization effort announced last month and considered a shambles from the start.

From New York Times

An injection of hundreds of thousands of draftees might stop Ukrainian advances in the short term, but military analysts said Russia would struggle to reverse its fortunes in the months ahead.

From New York Times