Ukraine brought back military conscription with immediate effect on Thursday as a spreading pro-Russian rebellion in the east threatened the ex-Soviet republic with disintegration.
Ukraine Brings Back Draft As Rebellion Spreads, Threatens Split
May 2, 2014

Via AFP:

An increasingly desperate Ukraine brought back military conscription with immediate effect on Thursday as a spreading pro-Russian rebellion in the east threatened the ex-Soviet republic with disintegration.

The move, decreed by interim president Oleksandr Turchynov, came after insurgents tightened their grip over more than a dozen eastern cities and towns.

Around 300 militants hurling petrol bombs and bricks stormed the six-storey prosecutor's building in Donetsk, beating up outnumbered riot police and stripping them of their shields and batons.

Ukrainian media reported that a prosec...

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