Armed with amphibious rifles, Russian Spetsnaz turn the waterline into a kill zone instead of a transition point.

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, and ...

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 leaked ...

Russia may take decades to rebuild the units, according to US estimates. Russia's elite Spetsnaz commando units have suffered enormous casualties during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, leaked Pentagon ...

RECRUITS to the special forces units that reportedly produced one if not both of the Novichok spies face gruelling training and potentially deadly initiations to qualify. Whether it’s being forced to ...

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. US analysts ...

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 ...

The Russian Defense Ministry recently announced that its elite Spetsnaz forces would receive "several dozen" new 2B25 "silent" 82mm mortar systems. The 2B25's noise level reportedly "does not exceed ...

Russia has sent its crack special troops into Syria to back up ­ President Bashar al-Assad’s bid to wipe out his opposition. Vladimir Putin’s feared Spetsnaz unit and a covert para battalion ghosted ...

Russian soldiers were locked in a room with a rabid dog and made to kill it with a shovel, during their gruelling training, a defector claimed. Russia ’s special forces are the elite of the Kremlin’s ...

In 2001, Mark Giaconia was a Green Beret patrolling the border areas between Kosovo and Serbia. His counterparts were Russian troops, many of which were airborne. Their mission was to disrupt the ...