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OMON is a combat unit for the protection and restoration of state order and public peace, serves as a reserve for the formation of militia in areas liberated from Soviet power to train experienced police officers. These militia units operated where open war gave way to partisan war. The detachment consisted of four foot and one horse platoons. [5]
On December 23, 2020, OMON's Minsk Special Purpose Police Unit was officially designated under the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) due to being regime actors. [9] OMON Minsk's leader Dzmitry Balaba was previously designated on October 2, 2020. [9] In January 2025, Canada imposed the sanctions against ...
Rosgvard OMON, during crowd control duty, dressed in blue ATACS. Before Rosgvard's uniform reformations, Rosgvard during urban policing used to wear blue variants of various Russian camouflages. Blue versions of Kukla (DPM) and Kamysh (Tigerstripe) were often optimized.
In February 2008, OMON commander Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Zakharchenko was killed in a shootout with a police unit composed of former opposition fighters in Gharm. [12] Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov , the former head of the Tajik OMON, made headlines in 2015 when he then defected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The first phase is the transformation of Interior Troops, OMON, and SOBR units (previously framed within the police) into National Guard units. The second step involves the elaboration of the troops' organizational and staff structure, harmonizing regulations and assigning specific tasks to each unit.
The Special Purpose Police Unit (Azerbaijani: Xüsusi Təyinatlı Polis Dəstəsi (XTPD); Russian: Отряд милиции особого назначения, OMON) or OPON (Otrjad Policiji Osobovo Naznačenija) was the tier one police tactical detachment unit within the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan Republic in the early 1990s formed during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The most serious attack occurred when OMON troops from Riga attacked the Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai on the Vilnius–Minsk highway on 31 July 1991. It is thought that the attack took place around 04:00, because a watch belonging to one of the victims stopped at this hour. [ 3 ]
The OMON attacked Brasa and Vecmilgrāvis bridges. 17 cars were burned during the day. On the night of 15 January, the OMON twice attacked the Riga branch of the Minsk Militia Academy. Later that day 10,000 people gathered for an Interfront meeting, where an All-Latvian Public Rescue Committee declared that it was taking over power in Latvia.