Terrorist Islamic State (IS, banned in Russia) claimed responsibility for the attack in Grozny. This was reported on Friday, January 1, by Reuters citing media related to the group.
Earlier, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov ordered to the speaker of the parliament of the republic Magomed Daudov to declare blood feud against the relatives of the attacking police in Grozny. Before that, representatives of Ingush teips appealed to Kadyrov and said that the Chechen authorities had illegally detained relatives of the killed natives of the republic who attacked the police in Grozny.
A shootout in Grozny took place on December 28 at an intersection near Mira Street. As a result, a patrol officer was killed, the second policeman was wounded and hospitalized. The law enforcement officers killed the attackers themselves with return fire. According to Kadyrov, they were brothers Khasan and Hussein, who moved to Chechnya in 2012 and worked in one of the bakeries. The head of the republic called them terrorists and said that they were trying to take possession of the weapons of the police officers.