05:52, 21 August 2025

Security forces in Ingushetia reported the destruction of a militant cache

A cache of live ammunition found by security forces on the right bank of the Assa River in Ingushetia belonged to a militant killed in Chechnya, the Interior Ministry said.

The cache was set up in the ground near a brick factory in the village of Nesterovskoye. Ingushetia's Interior Ministry reported that a criminal case had been opened, although the owner of the cache, according to their information, was killed several years ago.

The cache contained 174 7.62 mm cartridges loaded into two machine gun belts, as well as a metal box for storing a cartridge belt for a Kalashnikov machine gun, all packed in a plastic bag. Experts concluded that the cartridges found were suitable for firing various types of weapons, in particular, a machine gun and a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Dragunov sniper rifle, and a Mosin rifle.

The cache in the Sunzhensky district “belonged to a member of an illegal armed group” killed by security forces in Chechnya “in 2022,” according to a message on the official Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia. Other sources associated with the security forces claim that this is Rustam Borchashvili, who was killed in 2020.

On October 12, 2020, after a special operation in the Sernovodsky district of Chechnya, two killed militants were identified as Rustam Borchashvili and Kazbek Baidulaev. Several months before, in May, security forces had issued a description of Borchashvili while conducting an operation to search for militants in the Sunzhensky District of Ingushetia.

Two unofficial security forces channels, in particular, claim that the cache belonged to Borchashvili. “The cache was so well camouflaged on the river bank that only the painstaking work of professionals could have found it,” writes the “Antiterror 06” channel associated with the security forces.

Rustam Borchashvili is a native of the village of Assinovskaya in Chechnya. Security forces stated back in 2013 that he was operating in the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia near the border with Chechnya - at that time it was claimed that Borchashvili, who was on the federal wanted list, was killed during a special operation.

"Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that on March 11, 2024, on the outskirts of the village of Alkhasty in the Sunzhensky District, a cache of food and medicine was discovered, which presumably belonged to the militant Tagiru Tsuroev, who was killed during a counter-terrorist operation in Karabulak a week earlier.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/413997