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Chechen police report two militants killed in 2022
2023-03-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Security forces in Chechnya uncovered a terrorist cell and killed two militants, the republic's Interior Ministry said in a 2022 report, although Ramzan Kadyrov announced in 2021 that the armed underground in Chechnya was over.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on January 20, 2021, Ramzan Kadyrov reported that in the village of Katar-Yurt, six militants, led by Aslan Byutukaev,
... more formally known as Aslan Avgazarovich Byutukayev and to his fans as Emir Khamzat. In 2015 he transferred allegiance from Al Qaeda to ISIS as Number Three in Dokka Umarov‘s Caucasus Emirate, following which the majority of the group’s families removed themselves to the caliphate in Syria. In January, 2021 the Chechen police killed him for the last time...
who were on the federal wanted list, were killed in a special operation by security forces. "The bandit underground in the Chechen Republic is completely finished!" he said.

Aslan Byutukaev was involved in the terrorist attack at Domodedovo Airport in 2011 and in the attack of militants on Grozny on December 4, 2014, according to a biographical note  about him prepared by the "Caucasian Knot."

The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya reported that 104 crimes of a terrorist nature were detected in 2022, including the liquidation of a terrorist cell and the killing of two alleged militants, Kavkaz.Realii reports today.

According to a report posted on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya, in 2022, eight extremist and 104 terrorist crimes were detected in the republic.

"Six of which were related to the facts of providing financial assistance to members of illegal armed formations, as well as five facts of inciting residents of the republic to participate in terrorist organizations. In the course of joint activities on the territory of the republic, the activities of one autonomous terrorist cell, which included five people, were suppressed. resistance during the detention, two members of the illegal armed formations were killed," the publication on the agency's website says.

In addition, 31 people "involved in terrorist and extremist activities" were detained and "inclined to turn themselves in confession," the Interior Ministry reported.

Recall that in November 2022, the Prosecutor General's Office published data on the number of crimes registered in January-October. Most terrorist crimes were detected in Dagestan (394). In second place, by a significant margin, is Moscow (121 crimes). In Chechnya, which ranked third, 96 such crimes were registered.
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