The committee was founded on 7 January 2023 in Istanbul by Ingush nationalists living in Turkey. The creation of the movement was supported by
Oleksiy Goncharenko, a member of the
Verkhovna Rada. The movement participated in the
Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum, which was held in the
European parliament in January 2023. In May 2023, the government of
Ingushetia started charging known members of the organization with supporting the
Caucasus Emirate and justification of
Nazism. The armed wing of the movement, the
Ingush Liberation Army, was created in April 2023. In September 2023, the head of the Ingush Independence Committee,
Ansar Garkho, held his first official meeting in the Crimean Tatar Mejlis with the head of the
Mejlis Refat Chubarov and
Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement. In February 2024 the Committee praised a resolution by
Ukraine's
Verkhovna Rada calling for Ingush self-determination, and condemning the Stalinist
deportations of the Ingush. On May 3, 2024, the Ministry of Justice of Russia added the Ingush Independence Committee to the list of
undesirable organizations. == Goals ==