Much is written and claimed about the Spetsnaz. Rather less is known for sure, despite what is now quite an industry in Russian-language books on them, from memoirs to survival skills guides.

Since the opening hours of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s elite Spetsnaz special operations units have been on ...

It seems that 2024 was the deadliest year of the war so far for Moscow's forces, with thousands of elite troops killed on the ...

The military instructors of Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov are preparing Russian men for war and a militant organisation with ...

The tragedy began eleven years ago on February 27th when Ukrainians demonstrated in the capital Kyiv. This became known as the Euromaidan protests, which ousted pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych ...

For example, the Russian special operations forces community has suffered extremely heavy losses in the fighting. Some Spetsnaz units have lost up to 80 percent of their personnel. And when it ...

paving the way for the Soviet invasion. "This was a guy who spanned the ultra-cerebral world of the spymaster and the action man world of Spetsnaz [special forces]," Mr Galeotti says. He would ...

Ukraine has launched a surprise counteroffensive inside Russia, forcing Vladimir Putin to dispatch one of his top generals to ...

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believe that the intensification of the Ukrainian defence forces' ...