A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria has been charged with failure to report in connection with an attack on security forces in Nalchik.

A young resident of the Urvan district knew the participants in the July attack on security forces in Nalchik and knew of their plans, but did not notify law enforcement, investigators said.

As "Caucasian Knot" reported, in mid-September, a teenager whom security forces believe to be the second participant in the attack on the traffic police unit in Nalchik was arrested, and at the end of October, the Investigative Committee referred his case to court. The murdered participant in the attack, according to investigators, organized a separate unit of a terrorist group in Kabardino-Balkaria back in 2024, and the survivor joined it and tried to recruit residents of the Urvan district to the cell.

Operatives from the "E" center convicted a 20-year-old resident of the Urvansky district of failure to report a July attack on security forces in Nalchik. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the young man knew two of the attackers.

According to security officials, the suspect "reliably knew" as early as June 2025 about his acquaintances' involvement in an international terrorist organization. He also knew of their intentions to "actively participate" in terrorist activities in the republic, but he failed to report this to law enforcement.

"The individuals whose actions the suspect failed to report attacked police officers in the city of Nalchik on July 4, 2025, with the aim of seizing firearms and subsequently committing terrorist acts with them," according to a statement today on the official Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the republic.

The agency noted that the suspect admitted guilt. The Investigative Committee for Kabardino-Balkaria reported on its official channel that investigative actions are ongoing in the case of failure to report.

Failure to report a terrorist crime (Article 205.6 of the Russian Criminal Code) carries a penalty of up to one year in prison or forced labor.

Security officials in the North Caucasus are using the article on failure to report to intimidate relatives and friends of suspected militants, although its legal application is only possible under certain conditions, according to lawyers previously interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot." These conditions are not always met in practice: for example, the accused must have reliable and specific information about the crime and specific facts of criminal activity, while abstract rumors, assumptions, or everyday conversations are not covered by the article.

The attack on security forces in Nalchik was the first armed incident in Kabardino-Balkaria in nearly 15 months. The circumstances of the attack on security forces in Nalchik remain unclear, but the mere presence of residents of the republic willing to use weapons does not indicate a rise in radical sentiments in Kabardino-Balkaria, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" noted.