UPD: Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin “does not consider as credible” the opposition Telegram channels that published a video with the body of a teenager killed after attacking DPS officers in the town of Achkhoy-Martan. According to him, Moscow has “no other information.”
During a rally held the day before in the Chechen village of Achkhoy-Martan, law enforcement displayed the body of a 17-year-old boy accused of attacking a DPS post. Video was published by the channel of the opposition Chechen movement Niyso, showing the body lying on the asphalt in front of people gathered in the square and remaining there after the crowd dispersed.
As one of the representatives of Niyso told “Important Stories”*, during the rally, to which public sector employees were forced, the organizers of the attack on the DPS post were named as activists of the movement, and the curator of the operation was an employee of the Ukrainian special services. According to him, the Chechen authorities demand that the movement cease its activities, threatening to expel the activists' relatives from the republic and confiscate property.
The attack on the DPS post in Achkhoy-Martan occurred on April 7. The young man stabbed two policemen and was shot dead. One of the officers later died. According to Niyso, the killed boy was named Eskerkhan Khumashev, and he was 17 years old.
Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, demanded that law enforcement expel Khumashev's relatives from the republic and seize their property. Kadyrov also claimed that the attack was directed by Ukrainian special services.
Activists claim that Chechen authorities kidnapped and took at least six members of the killed boy's family to an unknown location.
* Recognized in Russia as “foreign agents” and “undesirable” organization.