Russia's Spetsnaz are certainly no exception ... created in 1957 within the GRU as battalion-strength units able to range behind NATO lines to locate and, ideally, destroy weapons such as the ...
The original Spetsnaz units were part of the Russian Chief Intelligence Office (GRU) and Federal Security Service (FSB).
Russia reportedly paid fighters linked to the Taliban $200,000 for every Western coalition soldier they killed in Afghanistan. An investigation by the independent Russian news outlet The Insider ...
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 battlefield.
The Spetsnaz logo is a black bat with wings spread out across the globe. According to the Russian news website Meduza, GRU officers get three years of specialist training, which includes ...