Dating back to the Cold War, the Spetsnaz represents an elite special force of Russian military intelligence. Over the years, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Quote: "Russian milbloggers claimed that elements of the Russian 30th Motorised Rifle Regiment (72nd Motorised Rifle Division, 44th Army Corps, Leningrad Military District), 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade ...