Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's Spetsnaz forces are often depicted as a kind of Russian super troops. But the mythology around the Spetsnaz is as often ...

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 ...

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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 ...