Spetsnaz were more than just elite commandos—they were the Soviet Union’s secret weapon in Afghanistan. Deployed for high-risk missions, these covert operatives reshaped modern warfare.

Systema Spetsnaz the combat of Russian Special Forces is based on the natural flow of the energy and efficiency of motion within space and time. Techniques are simple and practical allowing ...

Russia's ongoing offensive in Ukraine has raised concerns about how its Spetsnaz forces may be used. "Spetsnaz" has come to describe all specialized units in Russia's military, law enforcement ...

The same year a Special Forces group of nine people from the Spetsnaz GRU penetrated a secret U.S. airbase in Cambodia. New Super Cobra attack helicopters, equipped with the latest guidance ...

Then-Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov initially stripped the GRU of the Spetsnaz brigades, the very thing that distinguished it from the other secret services. "The idea was to get rid of the ...

Since the opening hours of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s elite Spetsnaz special operations units have been on the front of the fighting. Much like the rest of the Russian ...

We put this question to a Russian spetsnaz commando with first-hand experience of top-secret counter-terrorism operations around the world. The answer is not as clear-cut as it might seem.

The Spetsnaz, the catchall term for Russia’s special operations forces, are the most elite troops the Russian Federation has. They are also getting destroyed in Ukraine. That’s according to ...

Russia state-owned media outlet RT tweeted an odd video on Saturday of Russia's elite Spetsnaz operators training. The video shows Spetsnaz operators drop-kicking the windshields of cars and ...

The Ukraine war has decimated Russia’s elite special forces, known as Spetsnaz, with some of the prized units suffering up to a 95% casualty rate, according to leaked Pentagon documents.