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Hundreds of teenagers report for duty as Croatia reinstates conscription
Croatia aims to train 4,000 recruits annually with a focus on crisis skills and cyberwarfare amid concerns over Russian aggression and regional security shifts.
- Beginning this week, Croatia has resumed mandatory military training for the first time since 2008, with an initial intake of around 800 conscripts at three training sites around Croatia.
- Rising defence budgets and regional threats prompted Croatia's move, with Ivan Anusic, Defence Minister of Croatia, citing instability near the war in Ukraine and increased Croatian military spending.
- Recruits will receive €1,100 , with 82 women and 10 conscientious objectors, as Tihomir Kundid said, 'They have now been torn from the civilian environment'.
- Croatian authorities plan three more intakes this year and aim to train most men born in 2007 — around 20,000 — by 2026, while Serbia voiced alarm at Croatia's ties with Kosovo and Albania.
- As one of 10 Nato countries reintroducing service, Croatia, a country of 3.9 million, is the first in the region, with analysts warning such moves could raise regional tensions.
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The training for the recruits will last two months and will be conducted in barracks in Knin, Slunj and Požega. Half of them volunteered.
Croatia has re-entered the compulsory military service, which was abandoned in 2008, and hundreds of young people have already been present at the houses for the first stages of preparation, reports BBC. The instruction will take place in three locations in Croatia, and recruits must be present at the nearest military unit of their home, where they will receive the equipment ...
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