Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's Spetsnaz forces are often depicted as a kind of Russian super troops. But the mythology around the Spetsnaz is as often ...

Russian Spetsnaz train to come out of cold, black water ready to kill. No weapon swap. No pause. No fumbling for gear. They surface with rifles that work underwater and on land, and they keep moving.

January 23, 2012: Russia's special operations units have benefited greatly from the major reforms being instituted in the armed forces during the last decade. Airborne Forces (paratroopers) and ...

Born in 1950, special units of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) are the “eyes and ears” of the Russian Army’s General Staff. Not coincidentally, their emblem depicts a bat against a backdrop of ...

The Russian armed forces are ready to roll out military units trained to perform combat missions both in Russia and abroad. Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov recently said that the ...

As the Russian drawdown from Syria continues, more information continues to emerge about the forces Moscow had committed to shoring up the Assad regime. One telling aspect is how involved Russia’s ...

Russian Spetsnaz troops in Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in May 2021.Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images Mark Galeotti's "Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine."Osprey Publishing Most ...