Presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District Dmitrii Kozak met in Grozny on 22 June with relatives of the Avar families who fled the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya for neighboring Daghestan following a sweep operation on 4 June in which at least one person was killed and 11 were detained. Kozak condemned the sweep operation as \"an act of sabotage directed against Chechnya, Daghestan, and Russia,\" and he vowed that those responsible will be apprehended and punished. The Prosecutor-General\'s Office of the Southern Federal District has launched an investigation into the operation, which the Russian human rights group Memorial said on 22 June was conducted by Sulim Yamadaev\'s Eastern Battalion. But \"The Moscow Times\" on 23 June quoted Yamadaev\'s brother Ruslan, who represents Chechnya in the Russian State Duma, as having denied Sulim\'s involvement in the sweep in an interview with a Daghestani newspaper on 21 June. (RFE/RL)