Amid its struggles in Ukraine, Russia's military has relied heavily on its most highly trained troops. The fighting has taken a toll on those troops, including Russia's famed Spetsnaz special ...

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 ...

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 dash toward Kyiv in February 2022 was thwarted by stiff Ukrainian resistance. Russia's invasion also struggled because of flaws in its planning for the operation. One misstep was how ...

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 ...

Russia’s Spetsnaz are among the most secretive and feared special forces in the world, carrying out covert operations, sabotage, reconnaissance, and counterinsurgency missions behind enemy lines. From ...

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 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian Spetsnaz troops march through Red Square in a Victory Day military parade, May 9, 2021.Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images Amid ...