The Soviet KGB has designed the creation of Alpha Group on July 28, 1974, when
Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB after the
1972 Munich massacre. It's suggested that the order was done to respond
West Germany's creation of
Grenzschutzgruppe 9. The unit was created on March 3, 1990, stationed at the
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and tasked to tackle anti-terrorist assignments throughout the BSSR and the Baltic States The unit was initially staffed by 45 operators.
Post-USSR breakup In 1992, the unit officially received its official name She was rescued and the criminal was detained. In June 2006, the KGB has reaffirmed Alpha Group's mandate to combat terrorism. AG operators were involved in anti-terrorist exercises throughout the year alongside Belarusian military and law enforcement forces. AG negotiators were involved in getting him to surrender himself On November 29, 2014, AG participated in anti-terrorist exercises due to the World Ice Hockey Championship Games being held at Minsk alongside the Belarusian Special Rapid Response Unit (SOBR). On June 20, 2017, AG operators participated in an anti-terrorist operation exercise at
Minsk National Airport in recapturing a hijacked Boeing 737. Alpha Group celebrated its 30th anniversary on March 3, 2020. On August 9, 2020, it was reported that AG operators were deployed to intervene against the growing
protests towards President Lukashenko. On August 16, 2020, Minsk-based AG veterans have released a statement to condemn violence used against the protests. On 6 November 2020, the
Council of the European Union included Alpha's commander Col. Sergei Zubkov in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 765/2006. Zubkov was also sanctioned by the
United Kingdom, and
Canada. On 24 November,
Iceland,
Liechtenstein,
Norway,
North Macedonia,
Montenegro and
Albania aligned themselves with the November EU sanctions against 15 Belarusian individuals, while
Switzerland did the same on 11 December. On 23 December 2020, the unit was officially listed under the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) (
Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List) due to being regime actors. On 21 June 2021, Col. Zubkov, the commander of the unit, was also added to the SDN list. Since 2022, Alfa is also under the sanctions of the EU, Switzerland and Japan. ==Requirements==