The Spetsnaz selection and training methods were used to create commando units in the FSB (the successor of the KGB), military intelligence (GRU), the Interior Ministry (the national police), and ...

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 ...

No one could ever accuse our dear friends the Russians for conducting boring training exercises, as shown in this YouTube video. Ok, so one of our esteemed readers from Russia's side of the world has ...

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 ...

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The Russian public were given an unprecedented glimpse into the country's most elite special forces unit, when a Spetsnaz training video was aired on national television. In the rare footage, ...

VLADIMIR Putin has unleashed his ruthless Spetsnaz special forces unit who train with live bullets and kill dogs with shovels into Ukraine to execute Volodymyr Zelensky as the invasion continues to ...

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 ...

Russia just released a video of their elite Spetsnaz forces simulating a drilling rig rescue in Crimea — the region of Ukraine that Moscow illegally annexed in 2014. The training simulation was ...

Spetsnaz have appeared in many war zones, from Syria to Crimea, where they were the 'little green men' without insignia who helped rebels split from the Ukraine RECRUITS to the special forces units ...