Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Babban aikin farko na waje na rukunin ya zo ne a watan Agusta 1968, lokacin da Moscow ta yanke shawarar murkushe Prague Spring kuma ta tura sojojin ƙasashen Warsaw Pact zuwa Czechoslovakia. Spetsnaz GRU an ba shi aikin kama
Filin jirgin saman Prague. A daren ranar 21 ga watan Agusta, wani jirgin fasinja na Soviet ya nemi saukar gaggawa a Filin jirgin saman Prague, da ake zargin saboda gazawar injin. Bayan saukowa, kwamandojin, ba tare da harbi ba, sun kwace filin jirgin sama kuma sun karɓi kulawar zirga-zirgar jiragen sama. A lokaci guda, sauran rukunin Spetsnaz GRU waɗanda suka shiga cikin Prague 'yan kwanaki kafin aikin sun kwace iko da wasu mahimman wuraren birni.