1st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
Identification
This location matches Belarus’s 1st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (1st SAM Regiment), military unit 97097, a formation of the Air Force and Air Defence Forces based in Grodno. An official Belarusian Ministry of Defense page states the regiment was formed on 30 October 2010 from the 1st group of SAM battalions of the 115th SAM Brigade, received its battle flag on 17 November 2010, and its command post went on duty on 30 December 2010. ([mil.by](https://www.mil.by/ru/announces/4874/))
Equipment
Official unit history says the predecessor brigade’s Grodno group received S-300PS systems in January 2006. Belarusian OSINT reporting from October 2024 still described the 1st regiment as three S-300PS battalions, so open sources continue to associate this regiment with S-300PS rather than a publicly confirmed full re-equipment to another system. ([mil.by](https://www.mil.by/ru/announces/4874/))
Site
Open-source administrative and procurement records place military unit 97097 at Folyush 6 / military town Folyush in Grodno, which is likely the unit’s postal or headquarters address. Separate Belarusian OSINT reporting in 2023-2024 places the regiment’s deployed elements near Labno-Ogorodniki in Grodno district; Grodno is close to the Polish and Lithuanian borders, and that reported field location is consistent with the supplied placemark cluster rather than a central barracks site. ([bicotender.ru](https://www.bicotender.ru/company10536984.html))
Readiness
Publicly documented training indicates an operational air-defense unit rather than a storage site. The official MoD history records successful live-fire activity at Ashuluk in 2006 and Telemba in 2012, and Belarusian reporting in September 2023 said the regiment completed the first stage of a tactical live-fire exercise from a new positional area before further training in Russia. ([mil.by](https://www.mil.by/ru/announces/4874/))
Force posture
The site’s relevance increased after Belarus and Russia created a joint Air Force/Air Defense training center in Grodno region in 2021 and Russian antiaircraft units arrived there. Belarusian OSINT later assessed that a Russian S-400 division used the 1st regiment’s base near Labno-Ogorodniki; that regiment-specific basing detail is not confirmed in the official statements reviewed here and should be treated as OSINT reporting, not settled fact. ([interfax-russia.ru](https://www.interfax-russia.ru/military/news_eng/358899?utm_source=openai))
Status caveat
A public registry mirror lists the legal entity "military unit 97097" as created on 1 November 2010 and in liquidation from 30 June 2020. That conflicts with later 2023-2024 reporting that still refers to an operating 1st regiment, so the administrative status of unit number 97097 is not publicly resolved in the sources reviewed and may reflect legal re-registration rather than confirmed operational disbandment. ([rupep.org](https://rupep.org/ru/company/65997))