No casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts from March 9 to 22.

For the period from March 9 to March 22, 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 written "Caucasian Knot", no casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts from February 23 to March 8.

Arrests and sentences under terrorist and extremist articles

On March 9, in Rostov-on-Don, three Ukrainian servicemen - 33-year-old Sergei Shchepkiv, 28-year-old Artem Domshenko, and 28-year-old Igor Shcherbonos - were found guilty by the Southern District Military Court of participating in a terrorist organization. They were sentenced to terms ranging from 18 to 29.5 years of imprisonment.

On March 10, a resident of Kuban was charged with treason for transferring money to the Ukrainian armed forces in 2022.

22-year-old Ruslan Kolomoets and 19-year-old Nikolai Boychenko were sentenced to lengthy prison terms – 15 and 6 years, respectively, in the case of the arson of a transformer substation on the railway section between Bataysk and Azov. Young people from the Rostov region have been charged under the article on terrorism.

A 37-year-old resident of Mikhaylovsk was charged with financing extremist activity due to a money transfer made in August 2021 years. According to law enforcement, the woman "systematically viewed materials from an organization on a popular video hosting site," which Russian authorities designated as extremist and liquidated. She shared the organization's ideas and intentionally transferred money to its account through a bank mobile app.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Krasnodar Krai resident Andrei Peshkov to ten years in a maximum-security prison. According to law enforcement, Peshkov persuaded an acquaintance to join the "RDK," which is designated a terrorist organization and banned in Russia.

On March 11, the FSB arrested a woman from Khakassia for recruiting a teenager from Tuapse. According to security officials, she sent the teenager videos of school attacks and bomb-making instructions.

A military court sentenced an 18-year-old resident of Stavropol, finding him guilty of justifying terrorism. The young man pleaded guilty.

On March 12, the court sentenced the perpetrators of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which killed 144 people, to life and lengthy prison terms.

Officers from the Center for Combating Extremism and the FSB Directorate for Kabardino-Balkaria reported on the suppression of the financing of an extremist organization by a 62-year-old resident of the Prokhladnensky District. According to investigators, in August 2021, the suspect transferred money to a non-profit organization whose activities are banned by the court and recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation.

The Rostov Regional Court sentenced investigative journalist Sergei Reznik, who lives outside of Russia and is included in the register of foreign agents, to ten years in prison. Charges of extremism, rehabilitation of Nazism, and extortion.

On March 13, a prisoner in a penal colony in Stavropol was charged with extremism. According to the prosecution, the man, who was serving time in the colony, promoted the activities of an "extremist public association" banned in Russia among inmates.

Security officials discovered justification of terrorism in an audio recording that a Dagestani resident published online. A criminal case has been opened against him under the article on public justification of terrorism.

On March 16, a court in Maykop placed a minor accused of setting fire to an MTS mobile phone base station in a pretrial detention facility. On March 17, a second teenager was sentenced Abdulatipov, a resident of the village of Urgula in the Tsumadinsky District, was sentenced a suspended sentence after finding him guilty of inciting extremism due to a Telegram post.

A court in Krasnodar sentenced Yevgeny Bursanidi, the leader of the Kuban independence movement, in absentia to 11 years in prison for inciting a resident of the region to sabotage a railway.

A resident of Abkhazia, Timur Agrba, was sentenced by a military court in Rostov-on-Don. href="https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/421689">sentenced to 5.6 years in prison, finding him guilty of publicly justifying and promoting terrorism. Security officials discovered glorification of Shamil Basayev in his posts on the channel he managed.

FSB officers detained a 36-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria on suspicion of collecting information about military installations on behalf of Ukrainian intelligence services. A criminal case has been opened against him under the article on treason.

A 63-year-old suspect in preparing a terrorist attack has been arrested in Adygea in Adygea. According to the prosecution, he intended to set fire to the building of a volunteer group on orders from the Ukrainian special services.

On March 19, Tajik citizen Alimardon Karimov was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Southern District Military Court. According to the FSB for the Stavropol Territory, while serving a sentence in a penal colony in Stavropol, he swore an oath of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State*, a terrorist organization banned in Russia.

On March 20, the Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Lieutenant Colonel of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine Igor Lominoga to a lengthy prison term, finding him guilty of treason.

"Caucasian Knot" publishes 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".

* Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) is banned in Russia.