Prisoners seized Colony No. 19 in Surovikino, Volgograd Region. A riot occurred there, after which the prisoners took several FSIN employees hostage, some of whom were killed. The hostage takers call themselves "Islamic State Mujahideen".

A forest fire is being extinguished in the Gonachkhir gorge, located near the Dombay resort, in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.

The Chechen authorities presented apartments to natives of the republic, the winner and bronze medalist of the Paris Olympics Razambek Zhamalov and Islam Dudayev. The former competed for the national team of Uzbekistan, the latter for Albania.

Only 100 thousand rubles are offered to contract soldiers for participating in the war with Ukraine from the budgets of Chechnya and North Ossetia. These are the lowest rates among Russian regions. Such data are published on the website "Important Stories".

"I am just an infantryman," Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov told the Russian president during his visit to the special forces university in Gudermes. Putin, in turn, noted that "we are all infantrymen, we are all in the same position in this sense."

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the mothers of the children killed in Beslan during his visit to North Ossetia. The video released by the Kremlin shows only three women, who are shown for only a few seconds. They were not allowed to ask questions on camera.

About 20 representatives of the Chechen diaspora, Austrian activists and Ukrainian refugees held a protest near the German embassy in Vienna. They expressed their negative reaction to the fact that the German authorities sent to Russia the intelligence agent Vadim Krasikov, who received a life sentence for the murder of the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili.

A cell phone store was robbed in the village of Glushkovo in Kursk Region. It is reported that the crime was committed by two Russian soldiers. The robbers took phones and money from the cash register. They were identified as fighters from the Akhmat unit from Chechnya.

In the first half of 2024, 11.1 accidents with casualties occurred in Chechnya per 100 thousand vehicles, as follows from the RIA Novosti rating. This is the lowest figure in the Russian Federation. In second and third place are Yamal (42.5) and Chukotka (46.7).

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, signed a decree according to which prisoners and defendants in criminal cases will be selected to participate in the "SVO".