The Moscow theater hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater in Moscow by Chechen terrorists on 23 October 2002, resulting in the taking of
Russian special forces storm the Dubrovka Theater during the 2002 Moscow hostage crisis.
President Vladimir Putin visiting the Sklifosovsky Emergency Medicine Institute to meet with hostages rescued from the theater in Dubrovka.
Dubrovka theater building (2024)
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Spetsnaz GRU, formally known as Special Forces of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, is the special forces of the GRU, the foreign military intelligence agency of t
Moscow theater hostage crisis
…by narcotic gas pumped in by Russian security forces Russian public support for Vladimir Putin and the Second Chechen War surged. Belligerents Russia Spetsnaz GRU SOBR FSB Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs Commanders and leaders Vladimir Putin Movsar Barayev † (leader) Abu Bakar † (deputy leader) Shamil Basayev…
A depiction of a Spetsnaz GRU training installation as published in Soviet Military Power, 1984
An Afghanka-wearing Soviet Spetsnaz team preparing for a mission at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan in 1988
3rd Spetsnaz Brigade on parade, 9 May 2011
370th SPD conducting special reconnaissance training (2017)