On April 17-23, 2017, two persons killed in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

During the week of April 17-23, 2017, two persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

All the deceased people were suspected members of the armed underground in the Stavropol Territory.

Attacks on law enforcers

At about 11:00 p.m. Moscow time of April 21, in the vicinity of Ust-Nevinsky in the Kochubei District of the Stavropol Territory, law enforcers tried to stop a Lada Priora car. However, people in the car opened fire on the law enforcers from submachine guns and tried to flee. Two persons in the car were killed by return fire. According to the preliminary information, one of the killed suspects was the leader of a unit of the organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia by court, and he was trained at terrorist camps in the Middle East. The second killed suspect was an active member of the IS unit. No civilians or law enforcers suffered in the shootout.

Special and counterterrorist operations

At 9:00 p.m. Moscow time of April 20, counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime was introduced in the villages of Nizhny Djingutai, Durangi, and Karamakhi of the Buynaksk District and the villages of Durgeli, Gurbuki, and Gubden of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan.

Detentions

On April 18, Ramazan Izudinov, born in 1991, a resident of the village of Vostochny of Khasavyurt, was detained and taken away to some unknown destination. At about 7:00 a.m. of the same day, a landlady knocked at an apartment and said that there were military men on the threshold who were conducting a passport check. Ramazan Izudinov was at work at that time. When his wife opened the door, she saw seven armed people in camouflage uniforms behind a metal shield. The law enforcers did not produce any IDs and refused to mention their names. They asked Ramazan Izudinov's wife to get quickly ready and leave the apartment. Meanwhile, one of the law enforcers hit the woman claiming that she was dressing her baby too slow. The law enforcers wrote down the woman's data, as well as the data of her husband and relatives. She does not know what happened at the apartment after that, since she was in one of the apartments owned by the landlady. According to the landlady, the law enforcers first brought Ramazan Izudinov home and then took him away with them. Several days later, relatives of Ramazan Izudinov managed to find out that the man was arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting members of an illegal armed formation (IAF) and illegal possession of weapons (a grenade and ammunition) and that he was kept at the Khasavyurt SIZO (pre-trial prison). According to his relatives, Ramazan Izudinov was severely beaten, he got a swollen face, broken nose, yellow-green bruises on his face, bruises on his arms, and sores on his elbows.

On April 22, law enforcers subjected a resident of Grozny to personal search and found homemade gun barrels. The man was detained on suspicion of involvement in illegal arms trafficking. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in one of the boxes in Grozny, as well as in a yard of a private house, law enforcers discovered workshops arranged to manufacture combat weapons out of civilian ones.

Disappearances

On April 11, Djakhar Bisultanov, born in 1995, a resident of the village of Komsomolskoe (Berdykel) of the Grozny District, left for Khasavyurt to meet a girl. The mother of the disappeared man said that, as far as she was aware, the meeting lasted only ten minutes and then the young man went back. However, he never returned home. His family members filed a complaint about the Djakhar's disappearance to a district police inspector.

At about 5:00 a.m. of April 18, the house of Magomedshapi Maglaev, a resident of the village of Tarumovka of the Kizlyar District, in which he lived with his wife Patimat Alieva, was cordoned off by armed people in camouflage uniforms who arrived in three Ural cars. The armed men were looking for Magomedshapi Maglaev, born in 1990. However, he was not at home at that moment, since he worked at construction of a gas station in Kizlyar. After that, some of the armed men went for Magomedshapi Maglaev and brought him home at about 7:00 a.m. Then a search was conducted, during which nothing illegal was found and after which law enforcers took the host away with them to some unknown destination.