Medininkai Customs Attack

Date: July 31, 1991 • Location: Skaidiškės, Lithuania

Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of their campaign against Lithuanian border posts.

OMON is a system of special police units within the National Guard of Russia. It previously operated within the structures of the Soviet and Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). Originating as the special forces unit of the Soviet militsiya in 1988, it has played major roles in several armed conflicts during and following the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.