Special Forces history holds numerous obscure tales, like the unique joint US Special Forces-Russian Spetsnaz combat mission.

'The Soviets didn’t train for aesthetics. They trained for war,' says hybrid athlete and author James Pieratt of Wild Hunt ...

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 ...

Two Spetsnaz soldiers spar during training Credit: Alamy They also learn a martial art they call Sambo - a vicious form of no-holds-barred street fighting in which recruits are trained to use ...

Spetsnaz snipers play an important role in the elite force, and they carry a variety of weapons. Although it's less commonly used today, some still prefer the SVD Dragunov, which fires 7.62 mm ...

Now the GRU spetsnaz have another successful op to build on. The successful Crimea operation will go down as one of GRU’s biggest successes. The GRU Spetsnaz were the first (in 1957) of the spetsnaz ...

Spetsnaz proved itself to be highly efficient unit during the Soviet military campaign in Afghanistan, the two Chechen wars and the war with Georgia in 2008.

This is a cool video that showcases Spetsnaz selection. It's in Russian, but who cares, you get the picture. The fight scenes are cool, and I think the dudes padded up are fighting the instructors ...

Look, I don't want to indulge in any stereotyping here, even for funsies. But I have to cock an eyebrow at this video for the Russian Spetsnaz, the fifth and final Rainbow Six Siege special forces ...