Russia's ongoing offensive in Ukraine has raised concerns about how its Spetsnaz forces may be used. "Spetsnaz" has come to describe all specialized units in Russia's military, law enforcement, and ...

Vladimir Putin has lost a senior FSB secret services commander believed to be the most senior operative in the feared Russian group to have been killed amid the war in Ukraine. Lt Col Nikolay Gorban, ...

This was especially bad news for the GRU spetsnaz who were feeling that they were not getting the respect and good treatment they deserved. The FSB spetsnaz units had better fringe benefits and pay.

The assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvil, a former Chechen insurgent and asylum-seeker from Georgia, in a Berlin park last August was planned and organized by Russia’s FSB security agency, according ...

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 ...

In late November, Russia’s FSB spetsnaz special forces unveiled one of their most powerful guns at a firing range in suburban Moscow — the silent 12.7x55mm-caliber ASh-12 assault rifle. According to ...

He barricaded himself inside a building Bolshaya Lubyanka Street where he continued to engage FSB and Spetsnaz fighters before being shot dead at 7.15pm. A young man at the scene said: “We just walked ...