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Recruits wait for their turn to pass medical examination in a city hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. Ukraine has lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia's full-scale invasion. The new law came into force Wednesday April 3, 2024, a day after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed it.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky,File)