On the evening of June 23, unknown persons attacked a synagogue and a church in the cities of Makhachkala and Derbent of Dagestan. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan reported that gunmen in black clothing also fired at the police post in Makhachkala. Videos circulating on social media show them firing machine guns at police cars. It is said that six policemen were killed and 12 others were injured in the shootout with the attackers. Also, at least two fighters were shot dead.

Magomed Umarov, the head of Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, was captured. Umarov's two sons, Adil and Osman, were said to have participated in the attacks on churches and synagogues in Makhachkala and Derbent, and both were shot dead. At the moment, an anti-terrorist operation regime has been introduced in Dagestan: roads leading to and from Makhachkala and Derbent are blocked, police are checking cars.

According to the base Telegram channel, at least five civilians were injured in the armed attack. The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, said that more than 15 security personnel, the head of the police department of the city of "Dagestanskie Ogni" Mavluddin Khidirnabiev were killed in repelling the attack. The National Counter-Terrorism Committee reported that five armed individuals were killed during the operation.

The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, opposed the wearing of face-covering clothes, including masks, by women "from the point of view of security". He said that the burqa is a "clothing that is not characteristic of the people of the Caucasus" and added that "men hide behind the headscarf, and women carry forbidden things."

The fatwa department of the Mufti of Dagestan issued a fatwa on the temporary ban on the niqab. According to him, the ban is due to threats to the security of the republic's population, and it will be in effect until these threats are eliminated and a "new fatwa" is issued. Earlier, the mufti of Dagestan announced that it could not find sufficient Islamic grounds to ban the niqab altogether, but allowed a "local ban" on the wearing of traditional clothing.

Mufti Muqaddas-Hazrat Bibarsov, the head of the religious administration of Volgaboyi Muslims, criticized the fatwa of the mufti of Dagestan on the "temporary" prohibition of the niqab. "It is very sad that the Mufti of Dagestan followed the lead of those who are shaking the religious situation in the country..." he wrote.

It was announced that the Department of Fatwas will be reorganized in the Mufti of Dagestan. The department was closed because it was "out of step with the times" after announcing that it had found no grounds for banning the niqab under Sharia law.

Ukrainian drones attacked a number of military targets in Kaspiysk for the first time since the start of the war in the territory of Dagestan. The attack caused the delay of three flights at the Makhachkala airport. There are no reports of casualties.