The Defense Ministry reported on the assassination in Syria of the leader of the terrorist Katiba Tawhid wal-Jihad; he was called involved in the terrorist attack in the metro of St. Petersburg

The Ministry of Defense reported on the assassination in Syria of the leader of the Katiba Tawhid wal-Jihad terrorist organization, banned in Russia, Sirojiddin Mukhtarov. This was reported to TASS by the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, Major General Oleg Yegorov.

Egorov added that Mukhtarov died on September 8 in the province of Idlib under the attack of the Russian Aerospace Forces on a militant camp. According to the major general, more than 20 high-ranking members of another terrorist organization, Jabhat al-Nusra, were also killed. «mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />Article«It's scary to sit and not know what you're sitting for.» Who was convicted for the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro

The Investigative Committee called the Katiba Tawhid wal-Jihad group involved in the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro in April 2017. The investigation claimed that Sirojiddin Mukhtarov was the mastermind behind the explosion, which killed 15 people and injured about 100.

According to the Investigative Committee, Akbarjon Jalilov, who detonated the bomb, was also a member of Katiba Tawhid wal-Jihad. All 11 defendants in the case of the terrorist attack were named members of the organization, none of them pleaded guilty. They received terms ranging from 19 years to life. Only the Katibat al-Imam Shamil organization, associated with terrorists from Al-Qaeda, declared itself responsible for the explosions in the subway in 2017.

At the end of August, the FSB reported on the detention in Moscow, Novosibirsk Region, Yakutsk and Krasnoyarsk Territory 31 members of Katiba Tawhid wal-Jihad. The service claims that they recruited people, transported them to the places of hostilities, financed terrorists in Syria and called for «committing acts of terrorism.»

Last year, a court in Khabarovsk sentenced Samaraddin Razikov to 10 years in a strict regime colony for the case of preparing a terrorist attack at a rally in support of ex-governor Sergei Furgal. According to the FSB, Razikov was a member of Katiba Tawhid wal-Jihad. In a video released after his arrest, he pleaded guilty and said that he was seeking the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria.