Russian soldiers were locked in a room with a rabid dog and made to kill it with a shovel, during their gruelling training, a defector claimed. Russia ’s special forces are the elite of the ...

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 ...

Soviet Spetsnaz units reportedly trained using the MPL 50 shovel for hand-to-hand combat fighting. The MoD said the usage of the shovel as a weapon 'highlights the brutal and low-tech fighting ...

The shovel has long been used as a weapon. Soviet special forces units [spetsnaz] threw them at enemies in combat, according to Viktor Suvorov in Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special ...

The war in Ukraine has gutted Russia’s clandestine spetsnaz forces, and it will take Moscow years to rebuild them, according to classified U.S. assessments obtained by The Washington Post. The ...