5th Spetsnaz Brigade

The 5th Spetsnaz Brigade (Russian: 5-я отдельная бригада специального назначения, romanized: pyataya otdel'naya brigada spetsial'nogo naznacheniya; Belarusian: 5-я асобная брыгада спэцыяльнага прызначэньня) is a special forces brigade of the Armed Forces of Belarus, formerly part of the Soviet Spetsnaz GRU.

It was formed at Marjina Horka, Minsk Region, 1 January 1963 as the 5th Special Forces Brigade GRU.

[1] In the last years of the Soviet Union, the brigade had an all-professional company formation manned entirely by officers and praporshchiks.

On 12 September 2002, President Alexander Lukashenko presented the commander of the brigade with a new independence-era Battle Banner instead of the Soviet one.

In 2008, commandos from the Venezuelan National Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services visited Belarus, where they received training from the BFSO Dynamo and the brigade.

Troops of the brigade during the 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade