The case of a Stavropol resident for attacking soldiers in Chechnya has reached court.

The Southern District Military Court has received the case of Stavropol resident Khamidulla Yapov for an attack on Russian soldiers in the village of Chervlennaya during the Second Chechen War.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," investigators regularly report the arrests of alleged former members of the Basayev and Khattab group. Thus, in December 2024, it became known that the court sent to custody Khamidulla Yapov and Minkail Magamadov, accused of involvement in attacks by Basayev and Khattab militants on military personnel in Chechnya.

Criminal case of a member of the Basayev and Khattab group - Khamidulla Yapov, The case of the man accused of the 1999 attack on Russian servicemen in Chechnya, which killed 15 people, has been received by the Southern District Military Court, TASS reported.

According to investigators, Yapov joined Basayev and Khattab's gang in July 1999, and on October 4, 1999, a group of militants, which included Yapov and approximately 400 other people, ambushed servicemen from Military Unit 34605 in the village of Chervlennaya in the Shelkovsky District.

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In December 2010, Yapov was detained on suspicion of being part of the Basayev and Khattab gang in an armed attack on Pskov paratroopers in 2000. By decision of the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic, he was sentenced to 14 years in a maximum security penal colony. Yapov was released from prison in December 2024, the agency reports.

In 2012, the Grozny-Inform agency, reporting on the verdict in the case of the attack on the Pskov paratroopers, identified Yapov as a resident of the Stavropol Territory.

The victims' accounts of the battle during the attack on the Pskov paratroopers fundamentally contradict the testimony of secret witnesses, which formed the basis of the case against Grozny resident Alavdi Batykayev, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison, the Grozny resident's lawyer and human rights activist Oyub Titiev stated in November 2023. "The testimony of three secret witnesses is identical: they recognize photographs of people they briefly saw 22 years ago and never met in person, but they even remember their names," Titiev noted at the time.

The testimony of victims is used in every criminal case regarding the death of the Pskov paratroopers and is not related to a specific defendant, human rights activists stated in September 2023.