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A depiction of a Spetsnaz GRU training installation as published in Soviet Military Power, 1984. Spetsnaz GRU, formally known as Special Forces of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, (Russian: Части и подразделения специального назначения Главного управления Генерального штаба ...
The Spetsnaz GRU were involved in the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and in the war in Donbas. [20] During the November 2018, Kerch Strait incident , the GRU's Unit 54777 sent text messages to Ukrainian men in the border region calling on them to report for military service.
The elite units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are controlled, for the most part, by the military-intelligence GRU (Spetsnaz GRU) under the General Staff. They were heavily involved in secret operations and training pro-Russian forces in the civil war in Chechnya during the 1990s and 2000s.
SOF are distinct from the Spetsnaz GRU that until 2010 were under the Main Intelligence Directorate and whose subsequent subordination was left unclear [25] [21] until 2013 where the decision was reversed and GRU special forces units were reassigned to GRU divisions and placed under GRU authority again. [26] Russia's SOF are manned exclusively ...
The 24th Separate Guards Special Forces Brigade (24-й отдельной бригады специального назначения) is a special forces brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It had its origins in a separate company of special designation of the Main Intelligence Directorate (the GRU).
Showpiece of exhibition dedicated to 80th anniversary of Russian foreign intelligence service. The GRU's first predecessor in Russia formed on October 21, 1918 by secret order under the sponsorship of Leon Trotsky (then the civilian leader of the Red Army), signed by Jukums Vācietis, the first commander-in-chief of the Red Army (RKKA), and by Ephraim Sklyansky, deputy to Trotsky; [1] it was ...
In 2016, the regiment was upgraded to a brigade and its Spetsnaz companies were tripled from six to eighteen, increasing the capability of the unit from two operational areas to three. [7] The unit is part of the Russian Airborne Forces [8] and directly subordinate to VDV Headquarters. However, it is operationally also subordinate to the GRU. [9]
Until 2008 [3] or 2013, Dmitry Utkin served as lieutenant colonel and brigade commander of a unit of special forces of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), the 700th Independent Spetsnaz Detachment of the 2nd Independent Brigade. [4] [5] [6] The Brigade is taking part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [7]