During a disciplinary commission session, inmates took prison staff hostage. Measures are currently being taken to free the hostages. There are injuries.
One of the hostage-takers states in the clip that the group is affiliated with the Islamic State (or Daesh). According to several local channels, the attackers have demanded a helicopter and $2 million.
Russia has recently experienced a series of Islamist terrorist attacks, raising the question of whether its vast security agencies have been stretched thin by Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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