18:14, 17 August 2026

An Ingush resident has been sentenced to a long term for assisting terrorists.

The Southern District Military Court found Ingush resident Askhab Batiev guilty of assisting members of an international terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation and sentenced him to 10 years in a strict regime prison.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", in April 2023, security forces detained Askhab Batiev, who was suspected of aiding residents of Ingushetia wanted for attacking law enforcement officers.

After the shooting at a traffic police post on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia on the night of March 28, six residents of Ingushetia were declared wanted. Later, two of them, Ramazan Eldiev and Movsar Kottoev, were found dead. A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced, but the wanted individuals managed to escape twice after shootouts, and security forces suffered losses both times. On April 7, one of the wanted, Amir Bokov, surrendered to the police, and the next day it became known about the detention of Mikail Moshkhoev. Amirhan Gurazhev and Adam Ozdoev remained wanted. On April 15, the head of Ingushetia reported that during the counter-terrorist operation, four alleged militants were killed and two were detained, without naming them. Thus, there was no official report of the deaths of Gurazhev and Ozdoev. After Kalimatov's report, repeated appeals from the mothers of Gurazhev and Ozdoev calling for their sons to surrender were published in Ingush Telegram channels.

According to the investigation and the court, on April 1, 2023, Batiev, being in the village of Nizhniye Achaluki in the Malgobek district of Ingushetia, knowing that his acquaintances were members of a terrorist organization and were wanted in connection with an armed attack on law enforcement officers, provided them with a place to live, the Southern District Military Court reports today on its page on "VKontakte".

In addition, from April 1 to 2, 2023, he transported members of the organization from the village of Nizhniye Achaluki to the villages of Sredniye Achaluki, Inarki, and Novy Redant in the Malgobek district.

The court concluded that the defendant facilitated participation in an armed formation and sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a strict regime correctional colony, with the first three years to be served in prison. The verdict was issued taking into account the sentence of the Malgobek City Court dated August 29, 2023 (the text of the verdict has not been published on the website of the first instance court and the Appeal Court in 2024 - note from "Caucasian Knot"), the court's press service clarifies.

"The verdict has not entered into legal force and may be appealed by the parties in the Military Appeal Court," the message states.

On April 12, 2023, Ramzan Kadyrov reported that Chechen security forces detained a participant in armed attacks on security forces in Ingushetia in the village of Gvardeyskoye in the Nadterechny district. According to sources in the security forces, the detainee is a resident of the village of Aki-Yurt in the Malgobek district, Ramzan (according to other sources, Ramazan) Babuev, who helped those wanted to hide after the attack on the traffic police post.

On April 14, it became known that Ingush security forces found a grenade with a resident of the village of Aki-Yurt, who is a cousin of the detainee in Chechnya, Ramzan Babuev. An explosive device was found with another resident of the village. According to sources in the security forces, both men were detained.

Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/425848