A Stavropol resident has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term in connection with an attack on Dagestan.

The Khasavyurt District Court has convicted a participant in the 1999 attack on the Botlikh District of Dagestan for attempted murder of military personnel.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", at the end of December 2025, the court arrested Alibi Yaipkayev, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, accused of attacking the Botlikh District of Dagestan.

According to the court, the convicted resident of Stavropol Krai, while still a minor, participated in an attack on the Botlikh District of Dagestan in August 1999 as part of Shamil Basayev's group. During a clash with Russian military personnel, members of the group carried out a massive attack, resulting in injuries to service members, including fatal ones, the Dagestan Prosecutor's Office reported today on its Telegram channel.

The defendant was accused of attempting to kill service members in order to obstruct their lawful activities to maintain public order and ensure public safety. 1 .

"Considering the position of the state prosecutor, the court sentenced the attacker to eight years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony," the department said in a statement.

The defendant's personal information is hidden from the latest case file under Article 317 of the Russian Criminal Code on the Khasavyurt District Court website. The case was filed with the court on March 6, 2025, and the verdict was handed down on January 29, 2026, by Judge Sultan Ibragimov.

Security forces regularly report the arrests of alleged members of Basayev and Khattab's unit, but all such cases are similar and often falsified, lawyer Narine Ayrapetyan told the "Caucasian Knot." "The witnesses are the same everywhere. Five witnesses are usually called—three secret witnesses and two open witnesses," she said.

Ayrapetyan emphasized that cases are also fabricated against innocent people. "When people weren't involved, but are threatened, including with torture, others are forced to testify against them. For example, one of my clients, who is serving a sentence in the Ulyanovsk region, told me that he was being pressured to testify about the events of 1999 against people he didn't even know before," the lawyer said.

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that a court sentenced Stavropol resident Albert Elakayev to nine years in prison after finding him a participant in the 1999 attack by Shamil Basayev's group on Dagestan.