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Law enforcers have detained relatives of the teens, who attacked policemen, and interrogated friends of the murdered young men, residents of Chechnya have stated. Users of social networks doubt the necessity to shot dead the attackers.

In the city of Norilsk, suspects in recruiting militants into the "Islamic State" (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court) were detained, the press service of the FSB Department Krasnoyarsk Territory has reported. The day before, on August 20, teenagers in Chechnya committed attacks on law enforcers.

More than 100 Russian women, serving their sentences for assisting terrorists in Iraq, asked to help them to return to their homeland, said Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson.

Scientists engaged in oriental studies note that appeals of the IS (the "Islamic State", a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the "Caucasian Knot") were heard by Chechen teenagers who improved the tactics of solo attacks and organized a series of incidents.

The series of attacks in Chechnya will be followed by a tough reaction of the authorities; and law enforcers make use of methods against young people that they practice against adults, rights defenders assert.

Today, Muslims celebrate the first day of the sacrifice holiday Kurban-Bairam. Residents of Chechnya tell about increased prices for sacrificial cattle. In their turn, the republic's authorities report about their help to the poor.

Users of social networks have criticized the authorities' statements about the attack on policemen in Chechnya. Some have suggested that the attack is beneficial to the authorities, who thus can raise their rating after the death of Yusup Temirkhanov, convicted for killing Yuri Budanov.

The eldest of the five attackers on policemen in Chechnya is 18 years old, others are from 11 to 17 years old, a law enforcement source has stated. The age of the alleged militants has confirmed the trend revealed by the "Caucasian Knot" back in 2017: in Chechnya, young people are actively joining the armed underground.

A militant tried to undermine himself at the DPS (road-and-patrol service) in the village of Mesker-Yurt in the Shali District, but he survived, and no policeman was hurt, law enforcement sources have stated.

The attacks on policemen in the Shali District and in Grozny have become the fifth such incident in Chechnya and the 22nd in Northern Caucasus, the responsibility for which was claimed by the "Islamic State" (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court).

Two cousins considered disappeared for a week have been found at a police station, their relatives report. The reasons for the detention of the young men who wear beards are still unknown.

Law enforcers killed a driver of the car, who hit three policemen in Grozny. A child in the car was also killed. According to the law enforcers, the killed suspect tried to organize an explosion at a checkpoint.