Artsuyev's relatives demanded a personal meeting with the security forces' leadership.

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The relatives of Shamil Artsuyev, a native of Chechnya who was detained on the Russian-Georgian border and whose fate they have been trying unsuccessfully to learn for almost four months, have demanded a personal meeting with the leadership of Russian security agencies and the Presidential Administration.

"Caucasian Knot" reported that the relatives of 48-year-old Shamil Artsuyev have been trying to determine his fate for over three months after his detention on the Russian-Georgian border in November 2025. Several people have met Artsuyev in various detention centers, but security officials refuse to provide his family with any information about him. Despite the publicity, his relatives cannot determine his whereabouts.

Shamil Artsuyev's relatives reported on April 12 that they had sent repeated requests for a personal meeting with the heads of key security and government agencies of the Russian Federation.

Requests for a personal meeting were sent on March 19 to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, the Reception Office of the President of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor General's Office, the FSB, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "We are asking for a personal meeting because all other methods have already been exhausted. We do not know where our brother is or whether he is alive. "We ask only one thing: to establish his whereabouts and ensure compliance with the law," Artsuyev's relatives told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

According to them, the elders of the Artsuyev family, Artsuyev's brother Isa, and his lawyer were ready to attend the meeting. To date, no response has been received from the authorities to whom letters requesting a personal meeting were sent.

As a reminder, since 2017, Artsuyev has lived in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, where he helped his younger brother Zelimkhan run a business—he opened a small factory producing lamps and headlights. In 2022, Shamil Artsuyev and his family left Ukraine for Sweden, but due to difficulties obtaining a residence permit, he returned to Russia and lived in Chechnya since November 2023. In July 2025, he returned to Vinnytsia due to his younger brother's serious illness to help him and support the business. Four months later, he was returning home and was detained by security forces, after which he was subjected to a series of administrative arrests. Relatives suspect that the Ukrainian stamp in his passport attracted the attention of security forces.