Spetsnaz trained elite forces in Cuba, protected Soviet shipping ... Mark Galeotti is a scholar of Russian security affairs with a career spanning academia, government service, and business.

Considered one of the most secretive and superior special forces units in the world, the Spetsnaz are the primary elite forces of the Russian military, focusing on ‘political warfare’ operations that ...

"Reports of Chechen units apparently conducting their own POW exchanges with Ukraine suggest that some paramilitary units within the Russian military, like the Chechen Akhmat Spetsnaz units ...

North Korean soldiers opened fire on Russian special forces, after mistaking them for ... destroyed several vehicles and killed eight of the Spetsnaz soldiers. Analysts at the US think-tank ...

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have launched an offensive in the Kursk region in the direction of the Belov district. The details ...