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Defendants in Chechnya Terrorist Attack Case Sentenced to 24 and 25 Years in Prison

2024-09-25

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[Regnum] The Southern District Military Court has sentenced Nazhmudin Dudiyev (included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) and Ibragim Donashev (included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring), accused in the case of the terrorist attack in Chechnya in 2005. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a representative of the court.

“The court sentenced Dudiyev to 24 years in a strict regime prison with deprivation of his military rank, and Donashev to 25 years in a strict regime prison with deprivation of his military rank,” the agency’s source said.

According to the investigation, in July 2005, Dudiev and Donashev, as part of the gang of Supyan Arsanukaev and Viskhan Zaitov, took part in the kidnapping and murder of a man, whose body was then used in a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye in the Nadterechny District of Chechnya.

According to the information from the republican Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the gang members parked a car filled with explosives near residential buildings. It also contained the body of a kidnapped man, who was dressed in a Russian military uniform. One of the accused fired at the car to attract attention. After the start of investigative and operational activities, an explosive device was detonated. As a result of the incident, 15 people were killed, and another 36 were injured to varying degrees. Law enforcement officers were among the dead and injured.

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Dudiev and Donashev were previously sentenced by the court to prison terms of 18 to 19 years.
Recall that Dudiev and Donashev were previously sentenced by the court to prison terms of 18 to 19 years. They were taken into custody in late November 2018 on charges of banditry, participation in an armed mutiny, and an attempt on the life of a serviceman during an attack in Chechnya in 2000.

On the night of March 1, 2000, fighters of the 6th parachute landing company of the 104th regiment of the 76th Pskov airborne division entered into battle with a detachment of field commanders Shamil Basayev

…Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya "Abu Idris" and Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idris (1965-2006). Basayev was a Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death became the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Spetsnaz hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria. Some of his projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis...

and Khattab near the Chechen village of Ulus-Kert . 84 of the 90 Russian servicemen were killed, including 13 officers. Another four were wounded. The militants' losses amounted to 370 people.

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The Museum of Abkhazia closed the exhibition with Basayev's portrait to visitors
The Russian embassy in Sukhum was outraged by a portrait of Shamil Basayev, which was displayed at an exhibition in the State Museum of Abkhazia, with the caption: "Hero of Abkhazia." The museum promised to rectify the situation and closed access to the exhibition.

Representatives of the Russian embassy stated that they considered the display of the portrait of the terrorist unacceptable and contacted the museum. The site's management promised to "correct the situation as soon as possible," the agency reported, citing embassy representatives.

As of 17:40, the websites and Telegram channels of the State Museum of Abkhazia and the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia did not contain any information about the exhibition where Basayev’s portrait was presented or its closure.

The information that the State Museum of Abkhazia has a portrait of Basayev and a photo from the exhibition was published on September 22 by the Telegram channel Hard Blog. "How Basayev performed in Abkhazia is no longer important. He has tarnished himself so much that none of his past merits can serve as an excuse for the Abkhaz side. When Heroes of the Soviet Union committed crimes, they were stripped of their titles and condemned without much thought about their past merits," the blogger wrote in a message.

Shamil Basayev was a field commander during the First Chechen War and the leader of the storming of Grozny (August 1996), the organizer of terrorist attacks and the hostage-taking in Budyonnovsk in Stavropol Krai (1995), the Dubrovka Theater Center in Moscow (2002), the school in Beslan (2004, North Ossetia), the leader of the militant invasion of Dagestan (1999), which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War, and the attack on Nalchik (October 2005, Kabardino-Balkaria). He was killed on July 10, 2006.

Since August 1992, he took an active part in military operations in Abkhazia. He was the commander of the Gagra front and deputy minister of defense of Abkhazia. He commanded a detachment of Chechen volunteers.

In January 1993, at a joint meeting of the Presidential Council and the parliament of the Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus, Shamil Basayev was appointed commander of the expeditionary corps of the CPC in Abkhazia. He was charged with the duties of "coordinating, uniting, directing in the right direction and controlling the incoming flow of volunteers."

In 1996, Basayev reported that during 1992-1994 he traveled three times with his "Abkhaz battalion" to the camps of the Afghan mujahideen, where he learned the tactics of guerrilla warfare. Already in 1994, the "Abkhaz battalion" and Basayev entered into military operations in Chechnya, according to the biographical information about Shamil Basayev prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

"Kavkazsky Uzel" also wrote that relations between Abkhazia and Russia have become complicated recently. On September 4, the head of the Abkhazian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia would suspend social payments from September 1, which concern Abkhazian teachers, doctors and security forces.

Russia suspended payments because the Abkhazian authorities are not fulfilling agreements, including on investments and the so-called apartment bill, said Russian State Duma deputies Konstantin Zatulin and Alexey Chepa. The suspension of social payments to Abkhazia is related to the failure to maintain a balance of obligations between the two countries, but did not worsen relations, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Russia's suspension of funding for Abkhazian public sector employees has not yet affected their salary payments, political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" said on September 11. Among the reasons for this decision, they highlighted Sukhum's refusal to adopt laws important for Moscow and the failure of the Abkhazian side to fulfill its obligations under economic agreements.

The cessation of payments (we are talking about approximately 150 million rubles per year) will affect doctors, social workers and teachers, since the military, security forces and pensioners are financed under a separate agreement, emphasized Natalia Smyr, chairperson of the "Amtaa" foundation.

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A native of Ingushetia is suspected of involvement in the terrorist attack in Beslan

2023-09-02

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[KavkazUzel] Law enforcement agencies named Aslanbek Parchiev, a native of Ingushetia, as one of the participants in the terrorist attack in Beslan in 2004.

…a project of Basayev’s post-Soviet, Al Qaeda-linked Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death two years later became the Al-Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate.

Relatives said they did not believe in his involvement in the attack.

As the " Caucasian Knot " has reported, today in Beslan there are mourning events on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the seizure of the school. People come to School No. 1 to lay flowers in memory of the victims of the 2004 terrorist attack.

On September 1, 2004, militants seized 1,128 hostages in the gymnasium of School No. 1 in Beslan. The operation to free them ended on September 3, 2004. As a result of the attack, 334 people were killed, including 186 children, and another 810 people were injured. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report " Terrorist act in Beslan (September 1-3, 2004) " and a chronicle of the terrorist act and the events that followed it.

Law enforcement agencies said they had identified one of the participants in the terrorist attack in Beslan in 2004 - it turned out to be Aslanbek Parchiev, a native of Ingushetia. For 19 years, Parchiev, whose identity has not yet been established, was listed in the documents in the case of the terrorist attack as "militant No. 11" - one of five terrorists whose corpses could not be identified then, Izvestia reported.

According to the publication, in May, investigators received information about the discovery of a match with the fingerprints of one of the unknown terrorists. “It was established that in May 2002 this person was brought to administrative responsibility in Moscow. His fingerprints were requested and a fingerprint forensic examination was carried out.", said Albert Khasauov, senior investigator for especially important cases of the Investigative Committee for the North Caucasus Federal District.

The conclusions of the investigation were confirmed by a DNA test taken from his relatives. Parchiev was also identified by the only surviving militant, Nurpasha Kulaev, who is serving a life sentence. In an interview, he said that he was forced to take up arms. However, the victims of the attack were unable to identify Parchiev from the photo.

According to Khasauov, Parchiev's relatives have not seen him since 2003. And during the last meeting, he said that he was leaving for Kazakhstan to work.

“He was 32 years old when he left home to work. He was not married. He dropped out of college, although his parents dreamed that he would continue the family profession of a doctor,” said older sister Marina Parchieva.

The younger sister Zareta Parchiev added that her brother was hit hard by his father, who, in a fit of aggression, often broke down on his son. "Maybe that's why he left home then," she said.

Both Parchiev sisters said they did not believe in the version that their brother was a terrorist and participated in the seizure of a school in Beslan. "He would never do something like that for some idea or money," said Marina Parchieva.

Documents on the complete match of DNA, both women signed.

Recall that only 14 years after the tragedy, in December 2018, the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District announced the first official recognition since the terrorist attack that the storming of the school was planned from the beginning, despite the protests of local residents. The presidential envoy also confirmed that the school was fired from a tank.

In 2019, on the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack, the book Outpost. Beslan and Its Hostages was published, written by Olga Allenova, a journalist for the Kommersant publication. The author then told the "Caucasian Knot" blogger Alan Tskhurbaev that this is a book about a tragedy that is still "not lived through by our society, not comprehended, because there were and remain many lies about this terrorist attack," and therefore, "there is no hope that it won't happen again."

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The case of the participation of residents of Stavropol and Chechnya in Basayev's attack on Dagestan reached the court

2023-06-07

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[KavkazUzel] The case of a resident of Stavropol Territory Albert Elakaev and a resident of Chechnya Alimkhan Musaev, whom investigators consider to be participants in the attack on the Botlikh district of Dagestan in 1999, has been sent to court.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in September 2021, the investigation reported on the detention of natives of the Stavropol Territory Albert Elakaev and Alimkhan Musaev in the case of the attack by the Basaev and Khattab group on Dagestan in 1999.

On August 7, 1999, more than a thousand armed fighters from Chechnya entered the territory of Dagestan under the leadership of Shamil Basayev

...a.k.a.Shamil Basaev, Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, his kunya "Abu Idris" and Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idris (1965-2006). Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, linked to Al Qaeda. After his death it became the Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Russians hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria, where those not dead yet remain. Some of his projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis. In 2003, the US State Department designated three Chechen groups affiliated with Shamil Basaev as terrorists, accusing them of receiving millions of dollars from Al Qaeda...

and Jordanian Amir Khattab.

Habib Abdur Rehman Khattab, a Saudi by birth, according to our archives — which does not mean he wasn’t also Jordanian as lots of families sprawl across the Arab world — was head of the International Islamic Brigade, which took part in the first Chechen war in 1994. As a teen, Khattab had fought in Afghanistan alongside Osama bin Laden, then drifted to Tajikistan, where he became a brilliant commander before moving to Chechnya to be operations commander under Basaev and was his direct connection to Bin Laden. Russian intelligence killed him in Chechnya in 2002.

Fighting continued in the republic for more than a month. Only on September 15, 1999, Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev reported that the territory of Dagestan had been completely liberated, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Invasion of militants into Dagestan (1999)."

Investigations of criminal cases against "residents of the Stavropol Territory Albert Elakaev and the Chechen Republic Alimkhan Musaev" have been completed. They are accused of participating in a stable armed group (gang) and armed rebellion, as well as encroachment on the lives of servicemen, the Russian Investigative Committee said today.

According to the investigation, in August 1999, Elakaev and Musaev, "acting as part of a stable armed group under the general leadership of Shamil Basaev and Emir Khattab, took an active part in an armed rebellion" and "committed an encroachment on the lives of servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation," the statement says. in today's post on the department's website.

The cases of participation in the gangs of Basayev and Khattab are of the same type and are often falsified, lawyer Narine Hayrapetyan told the "Caucasian Knot" earlier. "Witnesses are the same everywhere. Five witnesses are usually taken - three secret witnesses and two open ones," the lawyer explained. She stressed that these cases are also fabricated against the innocent, when "under threat, including torture, other people are forced to testify against them."

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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: May 30th, 2023

2023-05-31

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[Korrespondent] 16:29 Ukraine received from the allies about two battalions of Leopard 2 tanks, 30 units each, that is, about 60 vehicles in total, Reznikov said. He recalled that the tank coalition includes Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Spain and Canada.

16:25 Putin said that the "Ukrainian attack" of drones on Moscow is due to the fact that the day before the Russian Federation allegedly struck a blow at "decision-making centers" in Kiev. He specified that it was an attack on the military intelligence headquarters of Ukraine "two or three days ago." According to Putin, with such attacks, the Ukrainians "provoke us to mirror actions," and "the citizens of Ukraine should know what their leadership is pushing for."

16:21 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation put Zaluzhny on the wanted list, follows from the data on the website of the department.

16:18 The Russians have changed their tactics of missile strikes, but they will not be able to repeat such "representations" often, Andrei Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with Online.ua. "The tactics of missile strikes have changed. They are mainly aimed at complicating or frustrating the plans of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Forces to further liberate the occupied territories," he said.

In addition, the Russian Federation is using the next wave of missile terror for demonstrative propaganda about allegedly damaging samples of Western weapons. "The attempt is active, massive, unprecedented, but to a large extent these are demonstration performances. The Russians will not be able to repeat such performances so often and with the same intensity and quantity," Yusov said.

16:00 Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia "reserves the right to take the most stringent measures in response to the terrorist attacks of the Kiev regime."

15:51 During the day, the Russians did not advance in any of the directions in which they were attacking, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister. According to her, the intensity of enemy offensive operations during the day has been somewhat reduced, but the intensity of shelling and air strikes remains.

In three directions out of six during the day, the enemy did not take offensive actions - Limansky, Avdeevsky, Shakhtyorsky. In the Kupyansk direction, he is conducting unsuccessful offensive operations. In the Maryinsky direction, during the day, the Defense Forces repelled 12 attacks in the Maryinka area. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy has not yet carried out offensive operations, but continues shelling and inflicting air strikes. Also in this direction is the replacement and regrouping of enemy troops.

Malyar stressed that Ukrainian troops control the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut. In the north and south of the suburb of Bakhmut, there has been no advance for several days, since the movement of Ukrainian troops has been suspended "to carry out other military tasks."

15:27 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on strikes "on central decision-making points, where, under the guidance of specialists from Western intelligence agencies, terrorist acts were planned on the territory of Russia."

15:25 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that almost 1.5 million people from the occupied territories of Ukraine have received Russian passports since October.

15:18 Shoigu said that the Russian military "in recent days" allegedly again hit the Patriot air defense system in Kiev. The speaker of the Air Force, Yuri Ignat, denied this: "Yesterday the complex worked - all targets of the Iskander type flying along a ballistic trajectory were destroyed."

14:40 As a result of Russian attacks, from October 2022 to March 2023, the Ukrainian energy system lost about 40-50% of its capacity, said the head of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky. According to him, the functioning of about 70% of the damaged objects has already been restored.

14:37 The Rada supported the bill, which reduces the age limit for citizens on the military registration of conscripts from 27 to 25 years.

14:29 Syrsky said that in the vicinity of Bakhmut, the Defense Forces continue to move forward, and showed the video.

14:12 In Moscow on the morning of Tuesday, May 30, local residents began to report a massive drone attack on the city. Drones crashed into apartment buildings in the capital of the Russian Federation, and loud explosions were heard in the Moscow region. Read more in the material Attack of drones on Moscow .

13:51 Zelensky said in an interview with Chosun Ilbo that his meeting with Putin is possible only after the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. According to him, Putin "only wants to seize Ukraine by war and destroy Ukrainian statehood." In addition, according to the president, the next target of the Russian dictator is Belarus.

13:33 Klitschko said that the woman who died during the night attack by drones went out on the balcony to see how the air defense works. He urged Ukrainians not to do this.

12:44 Peskov said that today's attack by "Ukrainian drones" on Moscow is "the response of the Kiev regime to effective strikes on one of the decision-making centers that were inflicted on Sunday." In his opinion, the Ministry of Defense and regional authorities during the attack "worked properly, worked well." He also said that Putin received direct information on the situation with the drone attack, and that the president is not planning any special appeals to citizens about what happened.

12:39 Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported damage to 12 apartments in a house in the Goloseevsky district. According to him, one person died, 11 were injured, five of them were hospitalized.

12:15 Russian media write that a citizen of Ukraine was detained in Moscow, who came to Russia to take orphans from the occupied Ukrainian territories abroad. According to them, she came to the Russian Federation on the instructions of the Save Ukraine Foundation, which allegedly works with the SBU.

11:58 Ukraine returned 79 more bodies of fallen defenders, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.

11:46 China does not directly support Kiev's position on the war, Zelensky said in an interview with the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo: "It is a fact that China does not directly support Ukraine's position. As for the peace initiative put forward by China, we are grateful to other countries for their efforts, but We pointed out that the main thing for us remains our own formula for peace, our own initiative.

The President also expressed his hope that South Korea will provide Ukraine with defense military equipment, such as air defense systems.

11:33 The coalition of aircraft for Ukraine can be expanded with Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, Reznikov said in an interview with Ouest France: "If the UK and Germany combined their capabilities to supply Eurofighter fighters, this would be an important step."

The Minister drew an analogy with the tank coalition, in which the main model is the German Leopard 2, as well as the American Abrams and the British Challenger. Similarly, in his opinion, a coalition of fighters could be formed with the base model of the American F-16, as well as with the Eurofighter and the Swedish Gripen.

According to Reznikov, Ukraine needs about 120 fighter jets in total. "Our British partners are ready to offer Ukrainians training courses on Eurofighter fighters. And we are discussing with our Swedish friends how to start training on Saab Gripen aircraft," the minister added.

11:22 InformNapalm writes that the UAVs to Moscow were launched from the Moscow region and were Chinese.

10:49 At the epicenter of the drone attack in Moscow were the estates of Putin's elite, including on Rublyovka, and federal TV almost does not report on the attack, the telegram channel writes We can explain . In particular, in Moscow itself, prestigious southwestern microdistricts were under attack, in the Moscow region - Rublevskoye Highway and its environs, where Putin's close associates - oligarchs and officials live.

One of the drones fell in the village of Ilyinskoye - just 3 kilometers from Putin's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. The residence of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is located in the village of Znamenskoye, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu lives next door. Near the village of Zhukovka, the mansions of Putin's closest friends, the Rotenberg brothers, stand opposite each other. Many other members of the Russian elite also live in the areas where the drones were targeted.

10:36 According to the calculations of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Russia's military spending increased by 9.2% in 2022, to $86.4 billion, which is 4.1% of GDP. British intelligence believes that Russia's actual military spending is "highly uncertain" due to increased use of secret budget lines, especially since February 2022, and a lack of transparency.

10:17 The Kiev military administration clarified that as a result of the night attack, one person was killed, seven were injured, of which six were in the Goloseevsky district, where the debris fell into a multi-storey building.

Meanwhile, the National Police report that nine people were injured in Kyiv, one died. Four more were injured in the Kyiv region.

09:58 The South African Foreign Ministry announced that it guarantees the granting of diplomatic immunity to the participants of the ministerial meeting in June and the BRICS summit in August in the country. At the same time, they clarified that diplomatic immunity does not apply to warrants of international courts.

09:36 The Russian Defense Ministry accused the Kiev regime of attacking drones on Moscow. According to the agency, eight aircraft-type drones were involved in the attack, all of them were allegedly hit: three were suppressed by electronic warfare, five more were shot down by the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun system in the Moscow region.

In turn, Russian publics write that more than 30 UAVs attacked Moscow, including the UJ-22 Airborne attack drone, which is manufactured by Ukrjet.

09:07 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed (in Toretsk), ten more were injured. In the Kherson region, one person died, according to the IVA.

08:59 The Ministry of Internal Affairs clarified that in the Goloseevsky district of Kiev, as a result of falling debris and a fire that arose in a high-rise building, rescuers evacuated 30 people, four were injured, one person died. In addition, more than 50 reports of damage to houses, apartments, offices, shops, garages and cars were received in the Kyiv region. Four people suffered from shrapnel wounds.

08:48 Biden said that the possibility of providing Ukraine with ATACMS missiles is being considered. Commenting on the intensification of Russian air attacks on Kyiv, he noted that this "did not come as a surprise" and "that is why we must continue to provide Ukraine with everything it needs." To a clarifying question about the possible transfer of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, Biden replied that this topic is “still in the game,” meaning that the issue is still being considered.

08:37 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 30.

personnel - about 207,440 (+410) people liquidated,

tanks - 3802 (+1),

armored combat vehicles - 7469 (+2),

artillery systems - 3445 (+10),

MLRS - 575 (+0),

air defense systems - 332 (+1),

aircraft - 313 (+0),

helicopters - 298 (+0),

UAV operational-tactical level - 3092 (+38),

cruise missiles - 1107 (+51),

ships/boats - 18 (+0),

automotive equipment and tankers - 6219 (+12),

special equipment - 454 (+1).

08:33 On the night of May 30, the Russians launched 31 Shahed-136/131 attack drones across Ukraine, 29 of them were destroyed , the Air Force command reported. Almost all UAVs were hit on the outskirts of the capital and in the sky of Kyiv.

08:29 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on attempts to completely occupy the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled 27 enemy attacks, the General Staff said in the morning summary .

08:11 In Moscow, drones hit two residential buildings, Russian media write with reference to emergency services. One drone hit the upper floors of a residential building on Profsoyuznaya, 98 - the facade and glazing of the house were destroyed, the second - in a 24-story residential building on Atlasova Street. Also "cotton" was heard in Krasnogorsk.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that early in the morning as a result of a UAV attack in several buildings "there was minor damage, no one was seriously injured." During the work of emergency services, residents of several entrances in two houses that were hit by a UAV were evacuated.

In addition, the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, announced the work of air defense. According to him, several drones were shot down on approach to Moscow. According to the Telegram channel Shot, a total of 13 drones were shot down in the Moscow region, three hit houses in Moscow.

05:15 At night, the Russians again attacked Kiev with Shahed drones. The attack was massive, from different directions, in several waves. The air raid lasted about three hours, said the head of the KGVA Sergei Popko. According to preliminary data, more than 20 drones were destroyed in the airspace of the capital. As a result of the fall of debris, there are casualties and destruction in different parts of Kyiv:

in Goloseevsky: due to the fall of debris on a multi-storey residential building, a fire broke out on the last two floors, more than 20 residents were evacuated. Initially, one person died and three were injured. Probably, the ceilings between the floors were destroyed, search work is underway under possible blockages;

in the Pechersky district, debris damaged cars;

a private house caught fire in the Darnitsky district, parked cars were damaged;

in the Dnieper region, burning debris fell on a green zone;

in Podolsky - for non-residential buildings;

in the Svyatoshinsky district, debris fell on the territory of one of the enterprises.

00:58 Explosions are heard in the Crimea near the city of Saki, not far from Novofedorovka, where the Russian air base is located, local publics report.

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A resident of Nalchik was sentenced to a long term for swearing an oath to the leader of the Caucasus Emirate

2023-05-27

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[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don found Khabibulla Isaratov guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and sentenced him to 10.5 years in prison. According to the investigation and the court, while in Nalchik, Isaratov swore an oath to the leader of the Caucasus Emirate*.

Khabibulla Isaratov was found guilty of activities of a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today.

"It was established that on March 21, 2022, in the city of Nalchik, he joined the banned terrorist organization" Emarat Kavkaz, recorded the process of taking the oath to its leader on camera and sent the recording via the Internet.

The court sentenced Isaratov to 10.5 years in a strict regime colony, the first two years and six months of his term he must serve in prison, according to a message on the Telegram channel of the Southern District Military Court.

The case went to court on September 30, 2022, 17 meetings were held, the verdict was delivered today, indicated in the case card on the court website.

As follows from the data in the list of extremists and terrorists on the Rosfinmonitoring website, Khabibulla Isaratov is from Orel, he is 19 years old.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 7, 2007, the President of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) Dokku Umarov announced the creation of the "Caucasus Emirate" in his address.

In June 2015, militants belonging to the structural subdivisions of the Caucasus Emirate* swore allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State* terrorist organization banned in Russia by a court, Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to the Caucasian Knot material, Caucasus Emirate * . After the oath to the leader of the IS militants from the structural divisions of the "Caucasus Emirate"

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A resident of Nalchik was sentenced to a long term for swearing an oath to the leader of the Caucasus Emirate

2023-05-24

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don found Khabibulla Isaratov guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and sentenced him to 10.5 years in prison. According to the investigation and the court, while in Nalchik, Isaratov swore an oath to the leader of the Caucasus Emirate*.

Khabibulla Isaratov was found guilty of activities of a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today.

"It was established that on March 21, 2022, in the city of Nalchik, he joined the banned terrorist organization," Emarat Kavkaz, recorded the process of taking the oath to its leader on camera and sent the recording via the Internet.

The court sentenced Isaratov to 10.5 years in a strict regime colony, the first two years and six months of his term he must serve in prison, according to a message on the Telegram channel of the Southern District Military Court.

The case went to court on September 30, 2022, 17 meetings were held, the verdict was delivered today, indicated in the case card on the court website.

As follows from the data in the list of extremists and terrorists on the Rosfinmonitoring website, Khabibulla Isaratov is from Orel, he is 19 years old.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 7, 2007, the President of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) Dokku Umarov announced the creation of the "Caucasus Emirate" in his address . In June 2015, militants belonging to the structural subdivisions of the Caucasus Emirate* swore allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State* terrorist organization banned in Russia by a court, Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to the Caucasian Knot material, Caucasus Emirate * . After the oath to the leader of the ISIS militants from the structural divisions of the "Caucasus Emirate."

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Relatives of women convicted in Iraq achieved the reaction of the Ombudsman of Dagestan

2023-05-06

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[KavkazUzel] A request has been sent to the Foreign Ministry to provide legal assistance to natives of Dagestan in Iraqi prisons, the republican ombudsman said after meeting with relatives of the convicts.

Sounds like ISIS wives to me.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on April 24, about 30 natives of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia and Chechnya, convicted under terrorist articles, went on a hunger strike in a Baghdad prison, demanding a review of their cases and return to Russia.

The meeting with the relatives of women in Iraqi prisons was reported by the Ombudsman for Human Rights in Dagestan, Jamal Aliyev, on May 4 on his Telegram channel.

"Today I met with the parents and other relatives of 58 Dagestan women convicted and serving sentences in prisons in Iraq. Their relatives turned to me with questions about the review of sentences and the return of convicted Dagestan women home to further serve their sentences," he wrote.

As a result of the meeting, the Ombudsman sent an appeal to the Consular Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry with a request to provide legal assistance to applicants in Iraq and help them find a lawyer, the publication says.

Recall that in June 2021, the participants of the seminar in Moscow stated that, although the authorities recognize the need to return the wives and children of militants from Syria, including natives of the North Caucasus, the problems of their rehabilitation and social adaptation remain relevant.

In 2021, Russian human rights activists released an analytical report on human rights problems and violations of humanitarian norms in the Middle East over the past 10 years of conflict. The "Caucasian Knot" published a note about this report.

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Three security officials from Chechnya convicted in the case of the terrorist attack in Znamenskoye

2023-04-22

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Rustam Buluev, Ruslan Namatov and Artur Ushaev, former employees of the antiterrorist center of Chechnya, were sentenced to long terms on charges of committing a terrorist act in the village of Znamenskoye in 2005.

The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that in 2021, the case of three residents of Chechnya, accused in the case of a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye, was sent to court. The defendants were charged with banditry, terrorism, encroachment on the lives of security officials, murder and attempted murder of two or more persons committed in a generally dangerous way by an organized group, illegal storage and transportation of explosive devices, and two of them were also charged with kidnapping.

On July 19, 2005, in the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny district of Chechnya, 15 people were killed, including a woman and two young boys, when a UAZ car filled with explosives was blown up. Another 24 local residents were injured, the security forces said at the time.

Ali Agamerzoev and Aslambek Vitrigov, natives of the Vedeno district, were detained on suspicion of involvement in the incident. Ayub Tuntuev, 29, who was later detained, was accused of organizing the attack. According to Tuntuev's testimony, the attack was ordered by Shamil Basaev ,

...also in our archives as Shamil Basayev, more formally Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya "Abu Idris" and Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idris (1965-2006). Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death became the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Russians hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria. Some of his projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis. In 2003, the US State Department designated three Chechen groups affiliated with Shamil Basaev as terrorists, accusing them of receiving millions of dollars from Al Qaeda...

who promised to pay the perpetrators of this action a thousand dollars, the Chechen Interior Ministry said in August 2005.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced three former employees of the anti-terrorist center of Chechnya, Rustam Buluev, Ruslan Namatov and Artur Ushaev, accused of a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye (Chechnya) in July 2005.

"Taking into account the position of the public prosecutor on the guilt of the defendants, the court sentenced them to imprisonment for a term of 21 to 24 years to be served in a strict regime colony," the press service of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office for the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts reported today.

The court sentenced Buluev to 21 years in prison, Namatov to 23 years in prison, and Ushaev to 24 years in prison. They will serve their sentence in a strict regime penal colony. Earlier, other participants Agamerzaev, Vitrigov and Tuntuev were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, the Russian Investigative Committee said today.

As follows from the case file on the court website, Buluev and Namatov were accused of kidnapping, the verdict on the defendants was announced today.

Former member of the security service of the President of Chechnya, Ayub Tuntuev, was sentenced in 2008 to 24 years in prison on charges of involvement in the case of a terrorist attack in 2005 in the Chechen regional center of Znamenskoye.

In May 2016, an appeal against this sentence was filed with the ECtHR, and on June 1, 2017, it was communicated. The complaint states that on May 27, 2015, under torture, Tuntuev was forced to sign a statement in which he admitted his participation in military operations against the federal armed forces in Chechnya from 1994 to 2005 and in an armed clash in the summer of 1999 in the Botlikh region Dagestan.

In 2017, he was found guilty in the case of the attack on the Pskov paratroopers in 2000, the court, taking into account the old sentence, sentenced him to 24 years and 11 months in a strict regime colony.

Artur Ushaev was previously sentenced to 19 years in prison, and Ruslan Namatov to 18 years in the case of an attack on Pskov paratroopers.

On the night of March 1, 2000, soldiers of the sixth company of the 104th regiment of the 76th Guards Airborne Division entered into battle in Chechnya with a large detachment of Shamil Basayev and Khattab. For about a day, the company held back the onslaught of about 2,000 militants who tried to break out of the encirclement.

Then, 84 out of 90 servicemen died, 370 militants were killed. Among the reasons for the tragedy, analysts name corruption and incompetence of the command and officers, according to the information of the "Caucasian Knot" "Fight for Hill 776: how the Pskov paratroopers died."

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The name of the detainee during a special operation in Chechnya has been revealed

2023-04-13

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[KavkazUzel] Chechen law enforcers detained a resident of Ingushetia Ramazan Babuev last night, who helped residents of Ingushetia put on the wanted list after the shelling of a traffic police post to escape, sources said.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that tonight Ramzan Kadyrov reported that Chechen security forces had detained "a member of the bandit underground" in the village of Gvardeiskoye, Nadterechny district. Later, Kadyrov added that a participant in armed attacks on security forces in Ingushetia had been detained.

Security forces during a special operation in the village of Gvardeyskoye, Nadterechny district of Chechnya, detained a resident of Ingushetia, Ramazan Babuev, the News_ingushetii Telegram channel reported today, citing operatives.

According to the source, after the small arms attack of a police post on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, residents of Ingushetia declared wanted came to Babuev's house in the village of Aki-Yurt in the Malgobek district of Ingushetia. They asked to be sheltered, after which Babuev took them to an abandoned koshara on the outskirts of Malgobek. On April 3, the security forces discovered the group, a shootout began, but all five managed to escape. Babuev was wounded in the hand and, in order to temporarily hide, moved to his cousin in Chechnya.

When the Chechen security forces arrived at the village of Gvardeyskoye for detention, Babuev tried to escape and received another light wound. In the department, he gave confessions about how he helped members of the bandit group. Security forces found ammunition on him, and a criminal case was opened against Babuev for illegal possession of weapons, the report said.

During the operation in Gvardeisky, Chechen security forces surrounded the house and offered Babuev to surrender, he tried to escape through neighboring land plots, but was wounded by law enforcement officers and detained, the Directorate4 Telegram channel informed today.

Ramazan Babuev is a friend of Movsar Kottoev, Babuev helped the residents of Ingushetia put on the wanted list, but did not participate in the shootings, the Telegram channel 1adat*, which is in opposition to the Chechen authorities, said today.

The ingterpol_news Telegram channel published a photo of Babuev's passport, from which it follows that he is 32 years old, a native of Malgobek, but received a passport in Chechnya. At the same time, Babuev's name is given as Ramzan in the passport photo.

The "Caucasian Knot" cannot confirm the authenticity of the statements of the telegram channels about the identity of the detainee in Gvardeisky and about the details of the operation. Officially, the name of the detainee has not yet been released. The Directorate of the Sledkom of Russia for Chechnya on their website and the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov on their pages in social networks by 18.30 Moscow time did not name the detainee, nor did they provide details of the special operation.

Recall that on April 5, during the counter-terrorist operation, the Ingush security forces discovered a group of alleged militants in the village of Zyazikov-Yurt. During the shootout, three police officers were killed and eight security officials were injured. The alleged militants managed to escape. The police of Ingushetia promised a reward for their help in the search for four residents of Ingushetia - Mikail Moshkhoev, Amir Bokov, Amirkhan Gurazhev and Adam Ozdoev.

On April 7, Amir Bokov surrendered to the security forces, the next day it became known about the detention of Mikail Moshkhoev. The losses of the security forces in the skirmish became the largest in terms of the number of casualties per day among the security forces in Ingushetia after August 2012, the "Caucasian Knot" calculated.

The security forces put Moshkhoev, Bokov, Gurazhev and Ozdoev on the wanted list after the March 27 attack on a traffic police post on the border with North Ossetia. Ramazan Eldiev and Movsar Kottoev were also put on the wanted list. Eldiev was found dead on the morning of March 29, and on April 5 it became known that another wanted man, presumably Kottoev, was found dead.

On April 3, the security forces found a group of alleged participants in the attack on a traffic police post on a farm in Malgobek, but the suspects opened fire on the security forces, wounded one of them and fled. The details of this series of incidents are collected in the "Caucasian Knot" report " Activation of the armed underground in Ingushetia in the spring of 2023 ".

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Chechen warlord killed in Grozny

2005-10-04

A notorious Chechen warlord said to have masterminded a terrorist attack that killed 15 people in the village of Znamenskoye in July of this year has been killed in Grozny, the pro-Moscow Chechen government said Monday.

Extremist leader Supyan Arsanukayev of Chechnyaâs Groznensky district was killed in Grozny, the Interfax news agency reported.

âLocal law enforcement agencies launched an operation to detain Arsanukayev after intelligence was received about his whereabouts. Arsanukayev offered armed resistance and was killed in shooting in the town of Ivanovo,â a Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman told Interfax on Monday. Local police forces did not sustain any losses during the operation, the spokesman said.

The dead leader organized the terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye in July 2005, which left 15 people dead, among them eleven policemen, two children and a woman, the spokesman added.

The Prosecutor Generalâs Office said earlier that the attack had been masterminded by Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev.

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Count Dooku's sister kidnapped

2005-08-12

A woman who is said to be a sibling of a notorious Chechen warlord, Doku Umarov, has gone missing in Russiaâs restive province of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported citing its source in the local administration.

Natasha Khumadova, a resident of Urus-Martan, was abducted in the early hours of Friday by unknown gunmen, the republican Interior Ministry reported. Khumadova is a sister to Doku Umarov, a notorious rebel leader who is believed to have been involved in a number of heinous terrorist attacks, the police reported. The authorities suspect him of assisting Shamil Basayev in organizing a blast in Znamenskoye where 14 people were killed after a UAZ truck hit a mine earlier this summer.

A source in the Urus-Martan district administration told Interfax on Friday that several armed people broke into Khumadovaâs house and threatening her with weapons led her away. The search for the woman was launched, the source said.

Could have been a wedding party.

Russian rights activists, on their part, do not rule out that Khumadovaâs disappearance could be an act of what they describe as counter-taking of hostages aimed to exert pressure on the rebel leader. âFor the time being the circumstances of the Umarov sisterâs disappearance remain unclear but, perhaps, what we see here is the so-called counter-taking of hostages. Human rights groups have long voiced concern about that practice as being one of the most dangerous tendencies in Chechnya,â Dmitry Grushkin, spokesman for the Memorial human rights group said on Friday.

He recalled that earlier Doku Umarovâs father, too, was abducted, according to rights groupsâ reports.

To recap, 8 relatives of the former Chechen separatist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, went missing in late 2004. After Maskhadov was killed during a security raid in March of 2005 all of them returned home, in June of 2005.

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Russian and Chechen Governments Explain Deadly Raid on Avars

2005-07-31

From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The Russian military says one of its officers has been indicted on suspicion of being involved in a recent deadly mopping-up operation in the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya. The announcement comes as hundreds of Borozdinovskaya villagers this week crossed into neighboring Daghestan for the second time in nearly two months to demand that action be taken against the perpetrators of the raid. They also demand that security be improved to protect them.

Media reports yesterday quoted Russiaâs chief military prosecutor in Chechnya, Maksim Toporikov, as saying one officer serving in a unit known as the Vostok (East) battalion had been indicted on suspicion of leading the raid on Borozdinovskaya. This was the first time a Russian official publicly acknowledged the possible participation of the Chechen-manned battalion in the raid. ....

On 4 June, troops believed to be operating under federal command raided the predominantly ethnic-Avar village of Borozdinovskaya, killing two residents, abducting 11 others, and setting several houses on fire. Fearing new abuses, nearly all of Borozdinovskaya's 1,000-strong population sought refuge among their ethnic kin in neighboring Daghestan.

Usually reluctant to denounce abuses committed by their own troops in Chechnya, the Russian authorities this time expressed outrage at the raid. President Vladimir Putinâs representative in the Southern Federal District, Dmitrii Kozak, called the Borozdinovskaya mop-up operation an âact of sabotageâ against Russia.

The Vostok battalion is made of Chechen recruits, but formally answers to the Russian Armyâs Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). The Borozdinovskaya raid has raised concerns of possible troubles between the Chechen and Avar communities. Also named âYamadayevtsyâ after their commander, Sulim Yamadaev, members of the Vostok battalion have gained a reputation in eastern Chechnya of unyielding ferocity. Yamadaev is a former separatist field commander who switched to the Russian side at the beginning of the second Chechen war.

Addressing reporters a few days ago, Yamadaev denied ordering the Borozdinovskaya operation, or receiving any instruction to raid the village. .... But in a statement carried by Russiaâs Interfax news agency, Yamadaev yesterday acknowledged members of his unit were in Borozdinovskaya on 4 June.

Yamadaev, who claims he was ill and lying in bed at the time of the incident, said in the statement that his troops entered the village in search of a man allegedly responsible for the killing of one of the Vostok battalion's soldiers. But Yamadayev denies any responsibility for the attack, which he said took place after his troops had left. ....

After the pro-Moscow Chechen government promised to search the abducted villagers and pay compensation for the damage caused by the attackers, Borozdinovskaya refugees agreed to return to Chechnya. However, the majority of them crossed again into Daghestan this week, setting up a makeshift tent camp near the town of Kizlyar. They have cited different reasons to explain their decision to leave Borozdinovskaya. Some refugees said they want to protest against the inaction of the Chechen government in looking for their abducted relatives. Others said they fear further abuses from Yamadayev and his men.

Refugees in Kizlyar told RFE/RLâs North Caucasus Service that after police forces deployed near Borozdinovskaya in the wake of the raid were removed and sent to the village of Znamenskoye after the car bomb attack that killed 14 people there on 19 July. They said that since police left, masked gunmen have made incursions into the village to extort money from the residents.

Pro-Moscow Chechen officials claim that most Borozdinovskaya refugees have now returned to Chechnya. But RFE/RLâs North Caucasus Service correspondent Nutsar Chumchayev reported from Kizlyar that 400 villagers were believed to be remaining there today [July 29]. ....

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