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The Cybertruck Tesla car from Elon Musk will go to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, the head of Chechnya has stated and invited the founder of the Tesla Company to visit Grozny.

Akhmed Djabrailov served as a storm-trooper in the Chechen special unit "Akhmat", and returned home a week before his death at a Makhachkala police station, his mother has stated. She has reproached the head of Dagestan for not reacting to the violence against a fighter in the special military operation (SMO) even after her written appeal to him.

Niqabs can be a good camouflage for criminals, given that there are no systems to identify who is underneath it, Amir Kolov, a retired Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), asserts. In his turn, Sergey Goncharov, the president of the Association of Veterans of the "Alpha" Antiterrorist Unit, has objected that niqabs were earlier used as a camouflage, including during the Chechen campaigns, but modern systems make it possible to identify the person hiding under a niqab.

The combined “Akhmat” battalion, commanded by Apti Alaudinov, is staffed with fighters from different regions, including volunteers and former fighters from the “Wagner” PMC (Private Military Company), experts say.

The memorial stones to prisoners of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp (SSPC), including those dedicated to repressed Chechens and Ingushes, have been damaged.

Five-Day War, twenty-five years since Basaev and Khattab’s invasion, drone attacks, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, early parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 5-11, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Oleg Orlov*, a human rights defender, who was taken away from Russia as part of a prisoner exchange with Western countries, has stated that his human rights activities in the regions of the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD) were the reason for his staying in Russia despite his criminal prosecution.

The paid teaching of the Koran and the Arabic language is in demand in Chechnya; and the demand to introduce free education at madrasahs was a Muftiate's attempt to gain control over this area, local residents and a Caucasus expert have stated.

A young man in a Chechen unit has apologized for his words about the "Akhmat" fighters hiding behind conscripts in the Kursk Region.

Zakhar Zaripov, sentenced to five years of imprisonment for addressing the leader of Chechnya, has been diagnosed with cancer. The appeal lodged against the Zakhar Zaripov’s sentence has not yet been considered, his advocate reports.

Ali Demilkhanov, a native of Chechnya, wounded two policemen on the road from Khasavyurt to Tlokh. The suspect is put on the wanted list. The man wears women’s clothing and a niqab as camouflage.