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 ...
After all, the modern Spetsnaz are really products of the Cold War, (re)created in 1957 within the GRU as battalion-strength units able to range behind NATO lines to locate and, ideally ...
The original Spetsnaz units were part of the Russian Chief Intelligence Office (GRU) and Federal Security Service (FSB).
Formed in 2014 with help from Russia's GRU military intelligence, its core members were former Russian Spetsnaz (Special Forces) operatives and career soldiers with a reputation for both toughness ...