01:56, 15 September 2026

Participant in the battles in Chechnya Khavaji Amaev was killed in Lviv.

Field commander of the Second Chechen War Khavaji Amaev, who also participated in battles in Syria and Ukraine, was killed in Lviv. For the last 20 years, he had been on the federal wanted list in Russia.

On September 30, 1999, Russian troops entered the territory of Chechnya. Thus began and lasted for 10 years (until August 2009) the hostilities in Chechnya and the bordering areas of the North Caucasus, known as the Second Chechen War, the Second Chechen Campaign, or Counter-Terrorist Operations (CTO) in the North Caucasus region. On April 16, 2009, the CTO regime in Chechnya was officially canceled, according to a report from "Caucasian Knot" "Main about the Second Chechen War".

In Lviv, Khavaji Amaev, a native of Chechnya known as "Zumso" - field commander of the Second Chechen War with the rank of colonel of the CRI*, whose squad continued combat operations in the republic until 2012. In recent years, Amaev was a member of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine, TASS reported, citing a source in Russian security forces.

46-year-old Amaev was killed in an apartment; his body with stab wounds to the abdomen was found in the kitchen near the refrigerator. A citizen of Ukraine has been detained on suspicion of murder, and his motive has not yet been established, RTVI reports.

A native of the Itum-Kalinsky district of Chechnya and a member of the Zumso teip, Amaev also used the call signs "Abu-Daud", "Abu-Taur", and "Zumso Shishani" at different times. After 2012, Amaev moved to Georgia, then through Turkey to Syria, where he also participated in battles against the forces of Bashar al-Assad's government. In 2014, while in Syria, he recorded a video message to Ramzan Kadyrov, stating that he intended to return to Chechnya and continue the fight. Subsequently, he left Syria by sea and spent two years in a Greek prison for illegal border crossing, claims the Telegram channel Directorate 4.

In 2016, Amaev arrived in Poland, where part of his family was already located, and later received refugee status there. Khavaji Amaev participated in hostilities in Ukraine since March 2022. In October of the same year, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a case against him for training in terrorist activities, and in June 2026, a case of treason was also initiated against Amaev in Chechnya.

Khavaji Amaev had been on the federal wanted list in Russia since 2006. In March 2010, when 21-year-old Anzor Khojaev from the Grozny district was convicted for aiding armed underground groups, security forces stated that he "in particular, assisted the wanted member of the illegal armed formation Khavaji Amaev".

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Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/426630