Great photos of Russian Soldiers

[Dennis G]

If anyone has some of these photos without that *****images tag on them pls post.


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[memphiz]

man o man, Russians are bad ass
great pics

[budanski]

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No where near the human rights injustice being commited in Gitmo by the evil U.S. warmongers. [/sarcasm]

[MEGR]

Man.. Russians really like beating the crap outta each other or themselves.. That's just hardcore.

[SR15]

looks like alot of fun :lol:
nice pics

[RomanS]

BRO

lets take out the first photo !
thanks a lot for the killer photos.

In October I will probably be atending the Red Beret try outs near Moscow.

I will try to get some nice photos for you all. But mostly we will be there to video tape the event.

I hear this year there will be Putin in there too. Would be cool to meet my president. Who knows, a friend tolled me he reads Bratishka magazine, and my article is there.

Thanks again Dennis!!!!!!

[Russian Texan]

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No where near the human rights injustice being commited in Gitmo by the evil U.S. warmongers. [/sarcasm]

So? They are dead already....
If they were alive, then you'd have a case....but I just do not see how dragging someones dead body behind APC violates his human rights, those guys are not humans anymore - they are corpses :)
Besides, I do believe those who done it were reprimanded, I have read about this particular occasion back in 2001 or so.

God, why am I so cynical?

[Srachka to Perdachka]

woot

[fred_engles]

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Well, at least the Russians have been reading the classics (http://24.24.31.212/literature/achilles-drags-hektor-HS.jpg).

[Kingpin]

Well, at least the Russians have been reading the classics (http://24.24.31.212/literature/achilles-drags-hektor-HS.jpg).

:)
Very old photo anyway.
From 1995-96 AFAIK
If someone going to bash us he should try to find something newer first. :)

[Kingpin]

Accurately speaking on 1, 3 and 7th photos aren't soldiers. This is different kinds of police units.

On first photo is Chechen militia patroling streets (Question for those who's crying about genocide - wtf those Chechens working with Russians authorities if someone kills their nation?)

Third photo possibly mix of OMON with interrior troops. This is event of October 1993 in Moscow

Seventh photo is Moscow's militia.

[341st panzergrenadier]

Love the second pic very cool!

[Sirpad]

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"i've had it! i can't take it anymore - i wanna go home...mommy!!!"

[SAS Britain]

Any Russians here, I just want to say some thing to PremskiiOMON. Rossiya c Vami, e vami ospeh V voiskah!!!!!

[SAS Britain]

Any Russians here, I just want to say some thing to PremskiiOMON. Rossiya c Vami, e vami ospeh V voiskah!!!!!

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No where near the human rights injustice being commited in Gitmo by the evil U.S. warmongers. [/sarcasm]

if you think that's bad look at this...

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[Kingpin]

Whats that cut?

[Javehn]

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No where near the human rights injustice being commited in Gitmo by the evil U.S. warmongers. [/sarcasm]

I personally woulnd't ride on top of APC , while there is nice smelly corps smiling at my face . No serry Bob , not here . We don't like those stuff . Ussually it's done in APC outside holding baskets , but in this case , well BTR don't have it . I am pretty shure that the last thing i would do with those nicely baked corps , is in anyway move them inside the APC . And you would have to trust me on this .

Nice pictures . Not familiar with that dance ... ?

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[He219]

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No where near the human rights injustice being commited in Gitmo by the evil U.S. warmongers. [/sarcasm]

So? They are dead already....
If they were alive, then you'd have a case....but I just do not see how dragging someones dead body behind APC violates his human rights, those guys are not humans anymore - they are corpses :)
Besides, I do believe those who done it were reprimanded, I have read about this particular occasion back in 2001 or so.

God, why am I so cynical?

Unfortunately, those were captured Chechens in Dagestan. They were killed to make an example to other Chechens. Here is the caption:

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384463 01: Russian Army forces drag dead Chechen fighters behind an armored personnel carrier September 1999 during operations in the village of Karamakhi, Dagestan. The Russians were on a "mopping up" mission in the village after positions held by the radical Islamic Wahhabite group were bombarded. According to the photographer, who made this exclusive image surreptitiously, the Russians decided to make an example of the captured Chechens after one of their own soldiers was killed by a sniper during the operation. (Photo by V. Svartsevitch/Newsmakers)


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FILE PHOTO: N364773 01: ** WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT** Three Chechen soldiers lay on the ground as Russian troops look at them after undressing and killing them, Dagestan-Chechen border, Russia, November 1999. (Photo by Laski Diffusion)


Acts of brutality can be commited on either side and should be judged on an individual basis, and not by categorically discrediting any particular group ....

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Russian Interior Ministry Special Team members attack their target during training in Moscow, Sunday, August 1, 1999. The commandos will fly to the border with Chechnya to interdict kidnappings, illegal trade for drugs, weapons and counterfeit goods in the region. (Photo by Konstantin Zavrazhin)

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N362343 01:Russian army snipers pose for a photograph at their camp in the mountains above Grozny, December 29, 1999. Russian forces have the capitol of Chechnya, and are expected to establish control of the city shortly after New Year's day. (Photo by Sean Ramsay / Liaison Agency)
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;)

[Marmot1]

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No where near the human rights injustice being commited in Gitmo by the evil U.S. warmongers. [/sarcasm]

So? They are dead already....
If they were alive, then you'd have a case....but I just do not see how dragging someones dead body behind APC violates his human rights, those guys are not humans anymore - they are corpses :)
Besides, I do believe those who done it were reprimanded, I have read about this particular occasion back in 2001 or so.

God, why am I so cynical?
And you still wonder why chechens cut off russian heads....


FILE PHOTO: N364773 01: ** WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT** Three Chechen soldiers lay on the ground as Russian troops look at them after undressing and killing them, Dagestan-Chechen border, Russia, November 1999. (Photo by Laski Diffusion)

It seams that they were 1st undressed then killed isn't it a war crime to kill naked POWs?

[RomanS]

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I was pretty close to this place when the tanks were blasting the white house. Me and my friends were sitting on top of a roof of a building 300ft away.

The sound of it was freaking awesome. And than the storm began. Commies started firing back from the white house, and we could actually hear the ricochettes on the roof. Thats when OMON was running around chasing us off the roofs.


Me and my friends stayed across from the white house last summer. Here is our view from the hotel Ukraina in the early morning.


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[intelligenzija]

awesome do you have more photos of moscow today?

[RomanS]

I sure do, and will post them here shortly.

I must have lunch.

Green Salad with Italian Dressing and a nice juicy steak

Be right back ...

[anonymous individual]

Can someone tell me more on the event that happened to the "white House"? I was very young when that happened and couldn't understand the news.

[hist2004]

THE FAILED COUP OF AUGUST 1991
Gorbachev's vision of a second revolution never included an actual coup. But events during the year prior to August 1991 led to rumors among even British and American intelligence that some type of coup attempt was highly possible within Gorbachev's government. After Gorbachev was elected president in February 1990, many feared that one man now had too much power, and that another dictatorship was coming to life.

In his last year in office, Gorbachev's actions seemed to contradict all that he had worked for.

During the October 1990 parliamentary session, Gorbachev rejected the "500 Days" plan to convert the centralized economy to a market orientation in less than two years. He had once strongly advocated uskoreniye, acceleration.

This later rejection convinced many friends and advisers that Gorbachev had lost his way. No one knew what to expect from him anymore.

On March 11, 1990 Supreme Council of Lithuanian SSR announced independence and restored Republic of Lithuania anexed by Soviet Union in 1940. Gorbachev appointed Boris Pugo as his interior minister in December 1990. Pugo, a Latvian and head of the KGB in Riga and immediately asked "to take the necessary measures against the Baltic to assure that constitutional norms were upheld and the rights of minorities respected." Economic blocade of Lithuania was announced by USSR. On January 13, 1991 Soviet troops attacked the main TV center, which left 15 dead and hundreds wounded. On January 20, more Soviet troops clashed with Latvians in Riga, leaving five dead. Not only did the world take notice, but hundreds of thousands of Soviets protested the actions of their own government.

One month earlier, in December 1990, in an unexpected blow to Gorbachev, Foreign Minster Eduard Shevardnadze resigned in front of nearly 2,000 members of the Congress of People's Deputies. Over the previous months, he had voiced increasing apprehension over the way his country was headed. "We are going back to the terrible past," he warned, "Reactionaries are gaining power. Reformers have slumped into the bushes. A dictatorship is coming. No one knows what this dictatorship will be like, what kind of dictator will come to power and what order will be established."

During the Gulf War, many in the Soviet Defense Ministry felt that the presence of US forces constituted a new threat to Soviet security. Vladimir Kryuchkov, chairman of the KGB, charged that the CIA was covertly trying to destabilize Soviet society. The Gulf War made those in the Soviet military much more receptive to the reactionary elements gathering force.

On 17 March 1991, people throughout the Soviet Union voted on a KGB-sponsored referendum on the future of their country. A negative vote would have immediately implied that the people supported Yeltsin more than Gorbachev. Yeltsin was calling for a different approach to attacking the country's problems, and he wanted to speed up reforms. Even though the vote came close to a draw, it strengthened Yeltsin's position and popularity. On March 28, Yeltsin announced he would hold a "rally of support" in Moscow. Interior Minister Pugo called it a "challenge to the authority of Gorbachev" with a "bunch of neo-Bolsheviks wanting to storm the Kremlin."

Gorbachev immediately banned the demonstration and renewed censorship of the print and television media, but the people attended the protest anyway. Gorbachev sent in troops to control the rally, which took place without incident. One of Gorbachev's aides stated, "March 28 was the turning point for Mikhail Sergeyevich. He went to the abyss, looked over the edge, was horrified of what he saw, and backed away." With discontent mounting, Gorbachev had to move closer to an alliance with Yeltsin to keep the support of the people.

Government were becoming uneasy. On June 20, Prime Minister Valentine Pavlov suggested that some of Gorbachev's powers be transferred to him. But the main issue was the upcoming union treaty with the republics. This treaty, if signed, would have taken away much of Moscow's power. Realizing they could lose their jobs, many in the government began thinking of ways to undermine Gorbachev's power. Some of his close advisers, sensing strife in the air, warned Gorbachev of a possible plot. Gorbachev dismissed the idea, saying, "They wouldn't have the courage to mount an attack against me."

Even though he had led a wave of unprecedented changes throughout the world, by 1991 Gorbachev's popularity at home was sliding to zero. After five years of promises, reforms failed to bring even a modicum of improved living standards to Soviet citizens. Gross national product fell by 10% in the first half of 1991 , while prices rose by more than 50%. With a grossly dissatisfied population, disjointed government, and repeated warnings of a plot against him, Gorbachev nevertheless left Moscow for the Crimea to take a brief vacation and to complete the new union treaty. Many said by now Gorbachev had become so out of touch with his own party populace that he never comprehended the power of either force.

August 18

At 4:50 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, Gorbachev heard a knock on his door; he was putting the finishing touches on his union treaty. Like count less millions under Stalin who heard a similar knock to whisk them off to the gulags, Gorbachev had no power over his future. His aides were at the door to tell him that Yuri Plekhanov, a top KGB official, had arrived at his Crimean dacha. Gorbachev immediately tried to call from his five phones, but all the lines were dead.

Gorbachev was further taken by suprise when his own chief of staff, Valery Boldin, entered the room. Boldin told Gorbachev that he had been sent by the State Committee of Emergency. Gorbachev said he never authorized such a committee. Boldin stated their demands-Gorbachev must sign a referendum declaring a state of emergency in his country, which would authorize other reform measures. If he did not, the head of the Emergency Committee. Vice President Gennady Yanayev, would take control. Gorbachev told Boldin, "Those who sent you are reckless; you will kill yourselves." Gorbachev refused to go along with any of the demands, vowing silently to commit suicide first.

As a further cause for alarm, Baldin and his assistants left with the "Black Box," Gorbachev's briefcase that contained the codes to launch all nuclear weapons throughout the country.

Since Gorbachev refused to go along with the coup, the conspirators, known as the Gang of Eight, ordered thousands of troops to head for Moscow, Leningrad, and the Baltics. Most of those in the Gang of Eight owed their jobs to Gorbachev. Ironically, after all the planning, the KGB failed to arrest Boris Yeltsin; he had rushed off to the Parliament Building 45 minutes earlier than us usual.

August 19

At 6:30 a.m. the coup leaders went public. The news agency TASS announced that Yanayev had assumed command because Gorbachev had "serious health problems" and could no longer govern. The Gang of Eight also announced that all strikes and demonstrations were banned and all media under official control. When they later appeared on television, the Emergency Committee appeared nervous and uncertain as to what to say. Yanayev stated, "we must take control since we are threatened by disintegration . . . " But his preferred solution was terrifying -dictatorship.

It became obvious from the onset that the coup was curiously halfhearted and ill-planned. None of the opposition leaders were ever arrested. Gorbachev's lines were the only communications systems downed. Yeltsin was receiving calls from around the world, and even ordered food from Moscow's Pizza Hut.

Yeltsin phoned Yanayev and warned him that "we don't accept your gang of bandits." At this point, Yeltsin went outside and climbed atop a tank in front of 20,000 protesters, asking for mass resistance. He denounced the coup as unconstitutional and called for a general strike, declaring himself the "Guardian of Democracy." Soon the crowds grew to well over I 00,000. Afghan war vets erected barricades in front of the White House and made Molotov cocktails. At the staircase one organizer with a megaphone cried, "all those courageous who are willing to defend the building, come forward!" The building was surrounded by people from all walks of Russian life, from students and defecting soldiers to priests and pensioners.

One old babushka declared, "I have lived through a revolution, two world wars, the Seige of Leningrad, and Stalin, and I will not tolerate another takeover; let the people be in peace I" Another, 72-year-old woman cried, "Give me a Kalashnikov (semiautomatic machine gun) and I'll kill the scum myself!" Thousands of the city's babushkas headed for the front lines. By the end of the day, troops were going over to Yeltsin's side, and many of the elite commando divisions were now protecting the White House.

August 20

The Emergency Committee imposed a curfew on Moscow, which none adhered to. The health problems that supposedly afflicted Gorbachev ironically were caught by the coup leaders. Many came down with "coup flu" and stayed home. Crowds of people started to raise the old Russian flag, with its white, blue, and red colors. Rostropovich, the famed cellist, even flew in from Paris and played music within the Parliament building.

Later in the day, those in the Parliament heard that tank divisions were headed their way. Protesters swarmed everywhere to protect the area; two people were shot and one was crushed by a tank. But the tanks retreated.

August 21

Three days after the attempted coup, Yeltsin announced that the coup leaders were trying to flee the country. Two were said to have headed for the Crimea to talk to Gorbachev, who later refused to meet with them. Instead he called Yeltsin. Yeltsin sent officials from the Russian Republic to bring Gorbachev safely back to Moscow. The shaken president returned by plane with his family early the next morning.

All eight members of the State Emergency Committee were arrested: Gennady Yanayev, vice president; Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB; Dimitri Yazov, defense minister; Valentin Pavlov, prime minister; Oleg Baklanov, of the Soviet Defense Council; Vasily Starodubtsev, member of the Soviet Parliament; and Alexander Tizyakov, president of state enterprises, industrial construction, transport, and communications. Boris Pugo shot himself in the head before he could be arrested.

At the same time, crowds were cheering not for Gorbachev's return, but for the country's savior, Boris Yeltsin. Communism had fallen with the coup. Thousands celebrated as the statue of "Iron Felix" Dzherzhinsky, founder of the secret police after the 1917 Revolution, was toppled from its pedestal in front of the KGB building. A Russian flag was put in its place. Now the monument could stand for the millions who died in prison camps by the hand of the KGB.

End Of Party Rule

By the end of August 1991 , Boris Yeltsin stood at the podium inside the White House and declared, "I am now signing a decree suspending the activities of the Russian Communist Party!" Even Communist-run newspapers such as Pravda were temporarily suspended. Gorbachev followed his actions by issuing decrees to end Communist Party rule. These decrees dissolved the party's structure of committees and policymaking bodies, which included the Central Committee. Archives of the Party and the KGB were seized. In addition, the government confiscated all the Party's assists and property throughout the country.

The Collapse Of The Soviet Union

On 21 Dec. 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. The great ideological experiment begun by Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution, constituted on 30 Dec. 1922, disintegrated nine days short of its 70th year. "One state has died," said Russian television, "but in its place a great dream is being born." The birth was the 11-member Commonwealth of Independent States.

Gorbachev's Resignation

On 25 Dec. 1991, Gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, submitted his resignation. "Given the current situation, I am ceasing my activities as president of the USSR." He no longer had a country to govern. But many had considered the Gorbachev era well over even before the coup against him collapsed. A few days before the official resignation, Boris Yeltsin claimed his office in the Kremlin. Yeltsin went to Gorbachev's office, and when he returned two hours later, he said, "It's over. This is the last time I will go and see him." An aide asked, "You mean Gorbachev will have to come to you?" Yeltsin responded, "maybe for his pension." With Gorbachev's resignation, the last rulers of the dying Soviet Union were gone for good.

Regards & Thanks,
Hist2004

[Russian Texan]

Tanks didn't fire on the "white house" in '91, it happened in '93.
In 1991- 4 people dies, in 1993 100+.
Rounds fired at the white house weren't real, they were practice rounds(thanks to the commander of the tank)

[StukaJr]

Hist2004 - you've posted info on the wrong coup - the images are from the second coup, that happened few years later and reversed the roles of the parties involved.

I was in Moscow during the first coup but wasn't during the second...

[hist2004]

Sorry guys..thanks for the correction...

Regards & Thanks,
hist2004

[StukaJr]

No prob - hist2004 :petting: You are a godsend of info on this forum. Reading your post made me relive those days:

Wake up at 8am, summer holidays, switch on TV - "Swan Lake"... Grrrrr... Go back to sleep... wake up 10am... "Swan Lake"... Still going... Go back to sleep... wake up 2PM "Swan Lake"... WTF???

[Loco]

The third photo, the encounter of red army and GIs in Elba river, actually is very famous. I´m sure you could find it better conditions in any web about IIWW.

[StukaJr]

There is also a not-so-famous picture of US and Soviet troops meeting on Elbe... In it, a US soldier totally checking out medal ladden chest of Soviet female soldier... Those were some defenitely nice looking ****ies... ahem... medals, I'll tell ya

[Loco]

There is also a not-so-famous picture of US and Soviet troops meeting on Elbe... In it, a US soldier totally checking out medal ladden chest of Soviet female soldier... Those were some defenitely nice looking ****ies... ahem... medals, I'll tell ya
I´ve never seen it. Where is it???

[Marmot1]

The third photo, the encounter of red army and GIs in Elba river, actually is very famous. I´m sure you could find it better conditions in any web about IIWW.

This is bridge in Torgau.

BTW this bridge was recently (last year) demolished by germans... official reason: "It was in bad technical condition" or something like that..

[Ding Chavez]

i'm at www.*****images.com where do i have to go to view the album or section where these photos are located?

i tried searching for them and i'm getting nothing

any help would be appreciated thx

[IsdatU]

Question:

I see lots of good camoflauge patterns. But then I see the blue colored camoflauge uniforms. Now I can understand green, tan, and even grey. But what possible environment would they have use for a blue camoflauge pattern?

[StukaJr]

There is also a not-so-famous picture of US and Soviet troops meeting on Elbe... In it, a US soldier totally checking out medal ladden chest of Soviet female soldier... Those were some defenitely nice looking ****ies... ahem... medals, I'll tell ya
I´ve never seen it. Where is it???

It's in one of my books - I think a big black "History of WWII" by Time or something... Maybe I'll scan it tonight...

[Marmot1]

Question:

I see lots of good camoflauge patterns. But then I see the blue colored camoflauge uniforms. Now I can understand green, tan, and even grey. But what possible environment would they have use for a blue camoflauge pattern?

1.Night - excelent
2.Urban - can be better than green

BTW russians also have some blue cammo AFAIR

[Kingpin]

Just BTW

http://forum.vif2.ru:2003/nvk/forum/files/Vlad_from_38/After_fighting_in_Tan_Bihn__the_body_of_a_Vietcong_soldier_is_dragged_to_a_burial_site_behind_an_armored_vehicle.jpg

[Undo]

Question:

I see lots of good camoflauge patterns. But then I see the blue colored camoflauge uniforms. Now I can understand green, tan, and even grey. But what possible environment would they have use for a blue camoflauge pattern?

1.Night - excelent
2.Urban - can be better than green

BTW russians also have some blue cammo AFAIR

You forgot snow covered forrest, which is what blue was principly designed for. Very effective.

Hey Kingpin, ...touche'

[Kingpin]

Hey Kingpin, ...touche'

It seems you're right. Everyone keep silence :)

[Ichhabe]

Just BTW

http://forum.vif2.ru:2003/nvk/forum/files/Vlad_from_38/After_fighting_in_Tan_Bihn__the_body_of_a_Vietcong_soldier_is_dragged_to_a_burial_site_behind_an_armored_vehicle.jpg

One has to see it first before one can react!! What kind of an insane point is it that you are trying to prove with that picture?

[obd]

hey Permski OMON, you say you are going to try out for the red berets eh....I thought you were living the civilian life in America and getting all soft hehe? How are you able to try out for the Red Berets after leaving Spetsnaz and living in America for a period??? Also, arnt you a little old for gettign the crap beat out of you by some current Red Berets hehehehe?

Not to offend or anything, but I have read some about that final fight test where you face more than one current red beret and they beat the crap out of you. I know the injuries tend to be light stuff like broken nose and maybe some teeth and a real bad headache even tylenol coudlnt cure the next morning but are you sure your ready for that????

After Red Berets, do you plan to go try for Alfa or something???

[anonymous individual]

hey Permski OMON, you say you are going to try out for the red berets eh....I thought you were living the civilian life in America and getting all soft hehe? How are you able to try out for the Red Berets after leaving Spetsnaz and living in America for a period??? Also, arnt you a little old for gettign the crap beat out of you by some current Red Berets hehehehe?

Not to offend or anything, but I have read some about that final fight test where you face more than one current red beret and they beat the crap out of you. I know the injuries tend to be light stuff like broken nose and maybe some teeth and a real bad headache even tylenol coudlnt cure the next morning but are you sure your ready for that????

After Red Berets, do you plan to go try for Alfa or something???

My hero Permski has medical problems that prevent him from joining the army. Is that right?

[Undo]

Permskii is not trying out for Red Beret. We have been invited to tape the tryouts. But don't discount Permskii for his medical probs. I have seen him fight. He is a tough SOB. Also, he is not too old. Most Red Berets in mid-twenties.

[RomanS]

Permskii is not trying out for Red Beret. We have been invited to tape the tryouts. But don't discount Permskii for his medical probs. I have seen him fight. He is a tough SOB. Also, he is not too old. Most Red Berets in mid-twenties.


well thank you for the compliment

Yes I am not trying out. We are going to video-tape it.

I did try it last summer "the last part of the show". Managed to stay 2 and half minutes.

My friend Undo went too, and impressed the livinig **** out of the whole Spetsnaz team.