10th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade of the GRU
The 10th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade is a special operations unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. It operates as part of Russia's special forces and carries out reconnaissance and sabotage missions. The brigade has been involved in combat operations in Ukraine, including in the Zaporizhzhia direction.
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Ukraine's 'Special Unit Timur' ambushes Russian special forces on Zaporizhzhia axis, taking one prisoner
Operators of Ukraine's military intelligence "Special Unit Timur" carried out a counter-sabotage operation on the Zaporizhzhia axis, ambushing and neutralising two groups from Russia's 10th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade and capturing one servicemember. Ukrainian intelligence said it established the groups' composition and routes through agent work and technical reconnaissance before the ambush. Radio Liberty said it could not independently verify the report.