The jihadist who beheaded a Chechen man in an Islamic State (ISIS) video is an ethnic Russian from a far northern city, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Friday, according to AFP.

"The supposed killer is identified as a resident of Noyabrsk, an ethnic Russian," Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the Chechnya region in Russia's North Caucasus, wrote on Instagram.

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