Russia is using elite paratroopers as regular infantry, the UK MOD said. The VDV force isn't at full strength and is being used to help overstretched Russian lines, it said. The VDV's hierarchy is ...

Russia's Spetsnaz forces are often depicted as a kind of Russian super troops. But the mythology around the Spetsnaz is as often misleading as it is extensive. In "Putin's Wars," author Mark Galeotti ...

"Apparently unsanctioned" comments from a senior Russian commander of Moscow's elite troops in Ukraine appear to show that around half of the Kremlin's paratroopers have been killed or wounded in the ...

The Ukraine war has decimated Russia’s elite special forces, known as Spetsnaz, with some of the prized units suffering up to a 95% casualty rate, according to leaked Pentagon documents. US analysts ...

Russia sent elite units to southern Ukraine to try to stop Ukraine advancing, a think tank said. But they failed to repel Ukrainian attacks, The Institute for the Study of War said. It said Ukrainian ...

As it infiltrated deep behind enemy lines to establish targets for a precision air strike, a group of four elite Spetsnaz commandos was suddenly ambushed by a force of over 40 ISIS troopers. The ...

The militia is believed to have been created by Dmitri Utkin - a former special forces officer and a lieutenant colonel with Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU. Its fighters have been ...