Ukrainian conscripts
Ryan Prosser – Metro June 27, 2025
For the first time in decades, European countries are discussing compulsory military service.
The Ukraine-Russia war and the ongoing instability in the Middle East have renewed calls for increased defence spending and measures to improve national security.
On Wednesday, NATO leaders pledged to increase defence spending to five per cent of GDP by 2035.
The decision taken at a summit in the Hague was hailed by Donald Trump, who called it a ‘big win for Europe and… Western civilisation’.
Several European states already have existing laws mandating military conscription, with 13 countries requiring certain citizens to do some form of service.
The latest to reintroduce compulsory service was Latvia in January 2024 – more than 16 years after it dropped the measure in 2007.
Other countries, such as Germany and Italy, are considering adopting policies to boost their armed forces.
Let’s take a look at which European countries citizens are expected to serve:
Austria
Austria has mandated military service continuously since the 18th century.
All male citizens aged 18 to 25 are required to serve in the armed forces, or if they prefer, perform civilian service.
The military service lasts six months, while the alternative, which includes driving ambulances and working in retirement homes is for nine months.
Women are not obliged to do service but may enter voluntarily.
Cyprus
Due to its precarious political relationship with neighbouring Turkey and the wider Middle East, Cyprus enforces conscription for eligible male citizens.
Men, including those born from just one Greek Cypriot parent, aged 18 or over, must serve 14 months in the Cypriot National Guard.
They are then transitioned to the country’s reserve forces, where they continue to serve until they reach 50.
Several European states already have existing laws mandating military conscription, with 13 countries requiring certain citizens to do some form of service.
The latest to reintroduce compulsory service was Latvia in January 2024 – more than 16 years after it dropped the measure in 2007.
Other countries, such as Germany and Italy, are considering adopting policies to boost their armed forces.
Let’s take a look at which European countries citizens are expected to serve:
Austria
Austria has mandated military service continuously since the 18th century.
All male citizens aged 18 to 25 are required to serve in the armed forces, or if they prefer, perform civilian service.
The military service lasts six months, while the alternative, which includes driving ambulances and working in retirement homes is for nine months.
Women are not obliged to do service but may enter voluntarily.
Cyprus
Due to its precarious political relationship with neighbouring Turkey and the wider Middle East, Cyprus enforces conscription for eligible male citizens.
Men, including those born from just one Greek Cypriot parent, aged 18 or over, must serve 14 months in the Cypriot National Guard.
They are then transitioned to the country’s reserve forces, where they continue to serve until they reach 50.
Denmark
Men over 18 are conscripted for between four and 12 months of military service in Denmark.
Women are currently exempt from the obligation, but will be required to complete service from 2026, under new plans announced last year.
The Danish government has also indicated it will extend the basic service time from four to 11 months by 2026.
Estonia
Estonia currently requires all males aged between 18 and 27 to perform military service.
Those with ideological or religious objections may complete civilian national service instead.
Around 3,200 conscripts enter the forces every year in the eastern European nation, which shares a 180-mile border with Russia.
Finland
Like many other Scandinavian countries, Finland conscripts all males for military service or equivalent civilian service.
Depending on their role, most military conscripts serve between six and 12 months.
Non-military service has a fixed length of 347 days.
Greece
Conscription has been a core policy of Greece since 1914, with all men aged 19 to 45 required to do service.
Male citizens serve 12 months in either the army, navy or air force.
Conscientious objectors may instead perform 15 months of civilian service.
Latvia
Another country bordering Russia, Latvia reinstated compulsory military service for all men aged 18 to 27 in January 2024, having suspended it in 2006.
Conscripts must now serve a minimum of 11 months in the National Armed Forces or National Guard.
The law allows for those who oppose service for religious or ideological reasons to serve for 11 months in one of the areas of the Ministry of Defence.
Lithuania
Lithuanian males are subject to conscription between the ages of 18 and 23.
Up to 4,000 conscripts are selected every year via a random system, although most young people have signed up voluntarily since the scheme was introduced in 2015.
There are also military volunteering opportunities for both women and those up to the age of 38.
Moldova
Moldova maintains mandatory conscription for males aged 18 and above.
Conscripts typically serve a year.
But the country is transitioning from a system of compulsory military service to professionally contracted armed forces.
Norway
Since 1907, Norway has formally had a policy of conscription, with the obligation extending to women as of 2015.
Enforcement of compulsory military service was practised loosely, with the system highly selective and not all those eligible are called up.
Sweden
Alongside neighbouring Norway, Sweden is one of just two European countries that practice conscription for both men and women.
Like Norway, all 18-year-olds are tested, but not all are required to do service.
Conscientious objectors have the right to apply for alternative service and then become part of the civilian reserve.
Switzerland
Swiss male citizens must complete either mandatory military service from 20 or civilian service.
In a referendum held in 2013 to abolish the practice, 73 per cent voted to retain the compulsory service requirement.
Those deemed unfit for service are exempt but must pay an additional three per cent of annual income tax until the age of 37, unless they are affected by a disability.
Ukraine
Conscription was reintroduced in Ukraine in 2014 following the war in Donbas.
Current president Volodymyr Zelenskyy had originally planned to abolish mandatory service in January 2022, but was forced to change course following the Russian invasion a month later.
Men over 25 are conscripted into the forces and remain in the active reserve until 55.
Which countries are planning to introduce conscription?
In Croatia, men aged 18 to 30 will be conscripted from 2026.
The country reintroduced the policy after a 17-year hiatus, with training expected to be shortened and focused on core military skills.
Serbia’s government announced at the end of last year it will reinstate compulsory military service from November.
Serbian men will be required to complete compulsory military service consisting of 60 days of training and 15 days of exercises.
The only reason why the UKrainian war is a rampower war, is that Nazis don’t mind killing their own.
The last week saw over 9000 UKrainian Nazis killed by the Russians.. I bet less than 100 Russians died.
Many of the countries listed above are very small, with corrupt elites who get kickback from the EU and Nazi NATO, so they really don’t give a crap about their sheeple.
Are there Russian aimed at Switzerland? I know. It’s a daft question, because it’s obviously no, and that’s because the Swiss are kinda neutral. So that answers your questions.
The Russians don’t want civilian deaths, so have been very careful with their strikes, but this has increased many fold, and it’s now difficult to see much of Western UKraine looking like anything, but a pile of rubble.
And wait, Nazi Amerika is still 110% behind Nazi UKraine, so not only does Donald Hitler lie, his deeds are pure Nazi Satanism.
DHs Big Beautiful Bill is making its way through the Nazi system of brown envelopes, such is the staggering corruption.
On a myriad of fronts, Nazi Amerika is being crushed, just as is Joolandia and Nazi UK.
CALL IT SOVIET EUROPE
THEN PEOPLE WILL BETTER
UNDERSTAND,
LOL..
the filthy rag ‘Metro’..getting the muggles used to the idea of being press ganged and lined up for the meat grinder..
I’m sure the galz will see it to..they are uselessly employed over there in the Ukraine enthusistically piloting little drones to hunt down so called deserters..of which there are many…so they can be sent back to the front for bisection or disection…
which brings to mind..awful George..
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
yup sounds about right..or left..whichever team you support..
Do you really believe the ‘E’lites rely on these muppets and freggels to achieve their goals on a real battlefield? The idiocracy can’t even be relied upon to do the groceries.
Not surprising that ZOGUK is conspicuously absent from those countries re-introducing conscription…
since something seems to be stirring…
and the Bwitish EshSTABwishment fears that – like the worm that turned – there’s a possibility that even dumb docile THICK Brits might eventually “get a clue” and start to “tutn”..
and refuse to be thrown into a WW3 meat-grjnder to save the sorry arses of a Bwitish EshSTABwishment that hates their fkin guts and has kicked them in the teeth and stabbed them in the back for so long that it seems like normal… with conscription being the last straw before the gallows & guillotines are rolled out onto The Mall, Parliament Square, The City etc etc for the “edification” of that treasonous ‘Wuling Cwass’…
Still too many white men in Europe. Time to prepare & stage Waste Whitey III & finish them off once and for all so mongrel moshiach can appear and rule over the world with a ‘rod of iron’ as St. John reveals.
The reason they don’t introduce press ganging in britain is simple – if you put a gun into the hands of any of the “inhabitants” they’ll use it to kill the dictators. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about the brown scum invaders or the scum natives – they’d both do it – it’s probably the only thing they’d ever agree upon. Give me a gun and I’ll fight – for my freedom from the jew cunts that control my country.
I notice the ruskies have officially announced that Lugansk is finally free of jewkranian shit. My congratulations to them. My country will never be free.
in germany TPTB want make military service
mandatory again . if I would be young I would
do absolutely nothing + even would not go into
their insidious juristic arguments . since migration
for whites is less+less possible I would be prepared
to be draged from one prison to the other . we would
not find refuge abroad like the ukrainians + asyl parasites
of today . they have a lobby, you white man not !
your own state will become your enemy !
@GYUYU
the massinwader parasites will never touch our own
political traitors because they are their lobby they
profite from them . you white young man without
any mafialobby behind you (juristical + medias)
you will stand alone against your own leftistgreen liberal
traitors and their foreign mercenaries + own police .
It is time for the goyim to start killing each other
ALL THIS for MONEY !!
The Jew has made the world ill, very very ill.
a young european should not serve for anything
(military or civil) since Russia from beginning
had no intentions to take any land of westeuropa .
it was the intention of ZIOUSA/UK to step to the
doors of Russia . not other way ! Russia had the
right to protect Russians pursuited by ukrainian
nazis procured by CIA/UK/Mossad . this was a
good opportunity for Putin to take all Ukraine they
owned since Yalta agreement + before .
it was Putins mistake not to follow this aim inmediately !