Nineteen people were killed in fighting between Chechen rebels and security forces in the center of Grozny.
According to Russian authorities announced the end of "anti-terrorist operation", ten members of the security forces were killed and 28 others were injured. Nine Chechen insurgents were also killed in the fighting according to President Ramzan Kadyrov.
According to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, the attack was launched from a roundabout by a group of rebels in the center of Grozny, which then continued fighting against the police in a school and a burning building housing the local media.
The attackers claimed the main Islamist movement in the Caucasus Emirate and its new leader Sheikh Ali Abu Muhammad.
The attack, which took place before the speech of Vladimir Putin is a setback for his protégé Ramzan Kadyrov, who runs since 2007 with an iron hand Chechnya.
The violence rekindled fears of a new cycle of violence in Chechnya, just days before the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the first Chechen war in December 1994.
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