No casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts from February 23 to March 8.

For the period from February 23 to March 8, 2026, no casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts. These are the results of the "Caucasian Knot" calculations, based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

As wrote "Caucasian Knot", from February 16 to 22, 4 victims were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia - 2 killed, 2 wounded

On February 24, the case of two teenagers from Krasnodar, accused of committing a terrorist attack by a group of people after setting fire to a battery cabinet on the railway, was sent to court. The 15- and 18-year-olds face 12 to 20 years in prison.

On February 25, security forces reported the prevention of a terrorist attack at a military airfield in the Krasnodar Territory. According to According to security forces, a man was planning to set fire to an airplane on orders from Ukrainian special services at a military airfield. He was arrested on charges of preparing a terrorist attack and treason.

On February 27, the Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a Stavropol resident to two years in prison, whose comment security forces deemed a justification for terrorist activity. According to the verdict, the woman shared the ideology of a terrorist organization banned in Russia, and her comment contained a "positive assessment of the group's illegal actions."

On March 3, two 16-year-old residents of Stavropol were arrested on suspicion of attempting to set fire to cell phone towers in the village of Staroizobylnaya and in In the city of Izobilny.

The Court sentenced Dagestani resident Said-Apendi Aliadzhiev to 13 years in prison, finding him guilty of attempting to create an illegal armed group and recruiting acquaintances, including two teenagers, into it. According to the court, Aliadzhiev also convinced these people to acquire weapons and wage armed struggle against government officials, commit attacks, explosions, arson at Ministry of Internal Affairs facilities, and kill law enforcement officers.

A resident of Nevinnomyssk is accused of financing extremist activity. Investigators describe him as a supporter of "radical views," without specifying what exactly his views were.

On March 4, a 42-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria arrested on suspicion of recruiting for a terrorist organization. According to investigators, he persuaded two of his acquaintances to join an illegal armed group on the territory of a foreign state.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Stavropol resident Artur Shamanov to three years in prison, finding his comments on a messenger to be justification and propaganda for terrorism.

On March 5, the Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Romanian citizen Adrian-David Kercho to 15 years in prison, accused of espionage on behalf of Ukraine. In December 2024, he was detained by security forces in Abkhazia, and in April 2025, by the FSB reported his detention in Sochi.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Kropotkin resident Vladislav Suryadnov to 14 years in a maximum-security prison, finding him a member of the Russian Volunteer Corps, a terrorist organization banned in Russia.

On March 6, a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five inmates of a penal colony in Kabardino-Balkaria to terms ranging from 17 to 26 years in prison. Akhmed Alborov, Kazbek Khuranov, Eldar Tamazov, Sergei Barelnikov, and Teymur Medvedev were charged with organizing and participating in the terrorist group "Jamaat," public calls for terrorism, and assisting terrorist activity.

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced a Russian citizen to 14 years in prison, having found his money transfer to the account of a Ukrainian serviceman to be treason.

FSB officers convicted a resident of the village of Usemikent in the Kayakent district of making public calls of a terrorist and extremist nature. The case was opened following the publication of a lecture by a preacher online.

On March 7, the Naursky Court of Chechnya imposed an administrative penalty on local resident Isa Magamadov under the article on searching for extremist materials.

"Caucasian Knot" publishes a monthly, Quarterly and annual statistics on victims of the armed conflict in the regions of the North Caucasus Federal District in the section "North Caucasus - Victim Statistics".

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