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 ...

What happens when the most dangerous soldiers on Earth decide to share their bone-breaking secrets? You're about to find out.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's elite Spetsnaz commando units have suffered enormous casualties in Ukraine. Leaked US documents show that some units have ...

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 ...

Russia’s famous Spetsnaz special forces have a long and proud tradition. Until recently their unit identity was wrapped up in distinctly Russian clothing and equipment. The camouflage schemes, load ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Alexander Mikhailov speaks about the threat of terrorism at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, he comes face to face with his own past. "My comrades are doing everything they can to prevent a ...

Rare footage from Russia has provided an intense look into the demanding training methods used by Spetsnaz, units long associated with some of the country’s most difficult and high-risk military ...