Khadulaev demanded an investigation into the injuries sustained by a conscript from Dagestan.

According to the official version, a conscript from Dagestan suffered a skull injury after falling from a tower, although there is reason to believe he was beaten, stated Shamil Khadulaev, head of the Public Monitoring Commission for Dagestan, calling for an investigation into what happened at the unit.

The Dagestani, a young man, served in Naro-Fominsk (Moscow Region - ed. "Caucasian Knot") and was then sent to the Voronezh Region. It was there, apparently, that he was brutally beaten, resulting in a fractured skull, although the official version is "he fell from the tower." "There is every reason to believe that the facts of what happened were covered up by his commanders," Shamil Khadulaev, head of the Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission, wrote today on his Telegram channel.

According to him, the 19-year-old is undergoing treatment at the N.N. Burdenko National Medical Research Center of Neurosurgery in Moscow and has "largely lost his memory."

"I am addressing the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation – Chief Military Prosecutor V.G. Petrov. Valery Georgievich, how is it possible that nothing is clear and established yet about what really happened to this conscript soldier of the Russian Army? Didn't the military prosecutors have questions about this incident of grievous bodily harm to the soldier?" he asked.

A video filmed in the hospital room is attached to the message, showing a young man with a long scar across almost his entire skull.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that following the beating of Dagestani conscript Islam Aliyev in October 2021, three soldiers from a military unit in Khabarovsk Krai—Ismail Magomedov and Shamil Tarchokov—and contract soldier Rinat Gashimov were detained. A criminal case has been opened for violating statutory relationships and extorting 20,000 rubles and a cell phone from a fellow soldier, the Investigative Committee reported. According to the military prosecutor's office, two of Aliyev's fellow soldiers from Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria participated in the beating, which was filmed on video. Social media users condemned those involved in the beating of a soldier.

The fact that a criminal case has been opened for violation of regulations and extortion following the incident at a military unit in Khabarovsk Krai is the correct classification, but the case could be reclassified over time. Cases of beatings of North Caucasus natives in military units are not uncommon, but it is not customary for them to complain about the use of physical force, lawyers pointed out.