On September 26, the human rights organization “Team Against Torture” released a report “The Arithmetic of Torture: North Caucasus Federal District.”

On September 25, more than 700 people were detained in Russia during protests against mobilization.

On September 24, Iranian Shahid-136 drones raided Odessa. Russia lost 4 combat aircraft and one helicopter in Ukraine in one day.

On September 23, referendums on joining Russia began in the “DPR” and “LPR,” as well as in the Russian-controlled Kherson region and part of the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine.

On September 22, the former mufti of Ukraine Said Ismagilov, who resigned as a clergyman after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and volunteered to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine, addressed the Muslims of Russia in connection with the “grave” announced by the Kremlin

Against the backdrop of these pacifist speeches, the appeal of the wife and adviser to the Mufti of Dagestan, Aina Gamzatova, to Putin with a request to delay the mobilization in Dagestan in order to “train real warriors” sounded dissonant.

Loud and massive protests against mobilization took place in Dagestan, and not only in the cities. On September 22, in the Babayurt district of Dagestan, protesters blocked the federal highway.

In the Caucasus, Chechen women were the first to come to the rally. Calls to go to the square appeared in messengers the day before.