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 ...

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 ...

Military training is supposed to prepare soldiers for war, fear, pain, and chaos. Some methods, though, look less like conventional ...

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, ...

Spetsnaz is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "special purpose forces". Historically, the term referred to the military special units controlled by the military ...

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 ...

WATCH: Putin’s special ops Spetsnaz filmed training FOR WAR in terrifying show of strength RUSSIAN 'Spetsnaz' special forces troops are seen here training in astonishing behind-the-scenes look at how ...

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 ...

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 ...