Team Metal are unable to prevent the kidnapping, but they are able to trace Makarov's Ultranationalists to a diamond mine in Siberia. Learning of President Vorshevsky’s captivity, Price and Yuri alert Team Metal of an Ultranationalist plan to abduct Alena from a safehouse in Berlin. This convinces Price that they are fighting for the same thing, and Price decides to keep his alliance with Yuri. However, he is able to reach the airport floors and tries to go after Makarov, but falls unconcious, and is later found by medics. Yuri reveals that he'd attempted to prevent the massacre, but was shot in the stomach by Makarov before he could stop it. Yuri explains that he was present with Makarov at Price’s assassination mission, the nuclear detonation in the Middle East, and the massacre at the Zakhaev Internation Airport in Russia. Before Soap dies of his wounds during their escape, Soap tells Price that "." After leaving his pistol behind with Soap's body, an enraged Price punches Yuri down a staircase and is prepared to kill him. Makarov reveals that he knows Yuri personally.
Price escapes just as Kamarov is blown up. However, the plan "goes south" when Kamarov himself is taken hostage and rigged with explosives. Once in Prague, Taskforce 141 meets up with Loyalist Kamarov to attempt an assassination of Makarov. After torturing him, Volk reveals Makarov's location to Sandman, being in Prague in Hotel Lustig. They capture Volk and are able to escape, at the cost of the Eiffel Tower's destruction. Price contacts Sandman with this info, leading to Delta Force raiding the Montmartre Hill in Paris. After torturing him, Waraabe gives Price, Soap, and Yuri the name of Mararov's new right-hand man, a French bombmaker named Volk, who is located in Paris. MacMillan gives him intel on a warlord named Waraabe, located in Somalia. Price contacts MacMillan, his former mentor, now callsigned Baseplate for England's forces. Thwarting a chemical attack on Paris, Team Metal locate Makarov in Prague. The plan is derailed when men loyal to Makarov kidnap him and attempt to do the same with his daughter, Alena. While this is going on, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky announces plans to make peace with the United States at a summit in Hamburg, Germany. Derek "Frost" Westbrook, Grinch, Truck, and their superior officer Sandman, facilitate the Russian withdrawal from New York. The actions of the Delta Force team callsigned “Team Metal”, including Sgt. Meanwhile, the Russian invasion of the United States continues, culminating in the Battle of Lower Manhattan, New York. They follow Makarov's trail to an arms deal in Sierra Leone and a warlord in Somalia as chemical weapons are distributed to Paris, Berlin, and London. Together, the four are all that remains of the disavowed Task Force 141. An ex-Spetsnaz soldier, Yuri, aids Price in giving Soap medical help, and with securing a safe route to an extraction point out of the country. While Soap receives medical attention, Vladamir Makarov's forces storm the safehouse in an attempt to kill the three. Hours after killing General Shepherd, Captain John Price and Nikolai evacuate a dying John "Soap" MacTavish from Site Hotel Bravo, Afghanistan, to a safehouse run by Nikolai’s allies in Himachal Pradesh, India.