After all, the modern Spetsnaz are really products of the Cold War, (re)created in 1957 within the GRU as battalion-strength units able to range behind NATO lines to locate and, ideally ...

Spetsnaz GRU, operating within the north-west city of Makariv, wired a bomb to the pooch so its rescuers would be blown up along with the dog when they came to help. The special forces are ...

The original Spetsnaz units were part of the Russian Chief Intelligence Office (GRU) and Federal Security Service (FSB). Today, several Spetsnaz units provide the Russian military and law ...

A fourth suspect, Russian national Oleg Pulatov, a former soldier of the Russian special forces Spetsnaz-GRU, was acquitted. “Causing the crash of Flight MH17 and the murders of all persons on ...

Intelligence sources consulted by Information and NRC have confirmed that Vladimir Grekov is known to them as an officer of the GRU. Grekov’s background in the spetsnaz should be a particular concern ...

Of the 88,000 identified soldiers, 6,000 were members of elite Russian forces, including marines, paratroopers, Spetsnaz GRU special forces (foreign military intelligence) and air force pilots.

He served in the Spetsnaz GRU, Russia’s military intelligence division, between 1988 and 2008, according to his online CV unearthed by the investigative website Bellingcat. As a lieutenant ...

What is the name of the group? Blackwater Fancy Bear GRU Spetsnaz Roscomsos Wagner After the uprising was called off, Russia announced that Prigozhin would be granted amnesty and would relocate to ...

The original Spetsnaz units were part of the Russian Chief Intelligence Office (GRU) and Federal Security Service (FSB). Today, several Spetsnaz units provide the Russian military and law ...