Russia’s commando units gutted by #ukraine war, U.S. leak shows

Typically, spetsnaz personnel are assigned the sorts of stealthy, high-risk missions ... for which they receive some of the Russian military’s most advanced training. But when Moscow launched its full-scale invasion last year, senior commanders eager to seize momentum and skeptical of their conventional fighters’ prowess deviated from the norm, ordering elite forces into direct combat...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/14/leaked-documents-russian-spetsnaz