On January 17, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four residents of Ingushetia who were found guilty of participating in the international terrorist organization “Islamic State” and of planning to blow up the buildings of police units in the city of Sunzha. Three of the convicts were minors at the time of the crime.

The death toll in the Dnieper from a Russian missile strike has reached 45 people, including 4 children. 79 people were injured. About 30 people are listed as missing. The missile could be launched at a multi-storey residential building in the Dnieper by the 52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Russian Air Force.

On January 16, live on the ya_pomoshnik_kra_95 platform on Instagram (this social network is recognized as extremist in Russia and is blocked), the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, answering questions from the head of the regional Ministry of Nationalities Akhmed Dudayev, spoke about the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine and called on the male population of the Caucasus and Russia to prepare for continuation of mobilization.

On January 16, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don handed down another sentence to a native of Ingushetia, Ali Taziev, a militant commander known as “Amir Magas.” He was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony for several serious crimes committed in 2009-2010.