Chimaev's aid to the "brotherly peoples" of Dagestan was sent to a region with a Chechen population.
The homes of approximately 1,400 people in villages in the Khasavyurt district are uninhabitable after being flooded, and the water also destroyed their livestock and farms. Villages damaged in the first days of the flooding are receiving large amounts of humanitarian aid, but UFC champion Khamzat Chimaev has added seven more trucks.
As reported by "Caucasian Knot," approximately 1.5 million residents are in the devastating flood zone in Dagestan. The state of emergency in the republic has been raised from regional to federal amid forecasts of a third wave of severe weather. Several regions in southern Russia have sent humanitarian aid to residents of Dagestan affected by the flooding. In Makhachkala alone, 82,900 requests for one-time assistance, over 10,000 claims for property loss compensation, and 297 claims for health damage were received from victims. The city has 13 accommodation centers for people forced to leave their homes due to flooding.
Flooding caused by heavy rains has been ongoing in the North Caucasus since late March, and it has become one of the most destructive in recent years. The disaster inflicted the greatest damage on Dagestan and Chechnya, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Spring Flooding in the North Caucasus - 2026." More than 6,200 people were affected by the flooding in Dagestan, the head of the republic, Sergey Melikov, reported on April 7.
About 1,400 residents of Khasavyurt were evacuated to a temporary accommodation center during the flooding. Several local villages, including Adilyotar, Tutlar, Novoye Tsilitli, Kadyrotar, and Botayurt, suffered significant damage as a result of the flooding during the first wave of the disaster, a representative of the district administration told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
“In Adilyotar, floodwaters destroyed a school, outbuildings, residential buildings, barns, and poultry houses. More than 460 homes were flooded there, and residents were evacuated to temporary shelters, some staying with relatives. In the village of Novoye Tsilitli, 120 households were damaged. Forty-three patients were evacuated from the hospital in the village of Botayurt,” an administration representative said.
On April 7, the Dagestan Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that specialists in the Khasavyurt district continue to provide assistance to residents of the villages of Adilyotar, Tutlar, and Tsiyab Tsilitli. Water levels are also being monitored in these communities. Chechen Human Rights Commissioner Mansur Soltayev announced through official channels that, at the direction of Ramzan Kadyrov, "additional forces and resources" have been sent to Dagestan to address the aftermath of the floods. "We are going through this ordeal together with our fraternal nations," Soltayev noted. He also reported that UFC champion Khamzat Chimayev sent a "large humanitarian aid shipment" to Dagestan—ten trucks loaded with food and essentials for families left homeless. The majority of this shipment—seven trucks—were destined for the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan alone, according to the state news agency TASS.
Chechens make up a significant portion of the Khasavyurt District's population: according to the 2010 census, their share of the population exceeded 22% (32,277 out of 142,784). They are the third-largest ethnic group in the municipality after the Kumyks and Avars. Khamzat Chimayev enjoys particular favor with Ramzan Kadyrov: the Chechen leader was a guest at the athlete's wedding and has repeatedly given him expensive cars.
Aslan, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, notes that the situation had stabilized somewhat by April 8. "Flooding has decreased. In early April, many villages were flooded, and there was a large loss of livestock," he told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Blogger Rasul Maazov and volunteers toured the villages of Kadyrotar, Adilyotar, and Novoye Tsilitli, and also visited a temporary accommodation center in Sivukh. He wrote about this trip on his Telegram channel, "Ask Rasul."
According to the blogger, large volumes of humanitarian aid are arriving daily in these villages and at special reception centers.
“The volumes are so large that a number of sites lack the capacity for further storage. For example, in Sivukha, the gym, kitchen, and utility rooms are completely full, so the reception of humanitarian aid has been temporarily suspended. A similar situation is observed in Ichichali, where the gym is also overcrowded and there is no available storage space. Storage facilities on the district administration grounds, as well as in the village of Kadyrotar, are overloaded,” Maazov said.
Caucasian Knot has compiled materials about flooding in the North Caucasus Federal District republics in the spring of 2026 on the topic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".