Chechen Leader Places Bounty On Koran Burner

The head of Russia’s Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has offered a generous bounty for the “elimination” of suspected Ukrainian servicemen caught on video desecrating a Koran.

The footage, which the Russian official reposted, shows two men in what appear to be Ukrainian military uniforms using pages from the Muslim holy book to start a fire.

Taking to Telegram on Friday, Kadyrov insisted that merely issuing a “formal condemnation of the Ukrainian vermin’s action that recently burned pages from the Holy Koran” would not be enough.

“I announce a reward of five million rubles for eliminating this scum,” he wrote, adding that the bounty would be twice as high should the desecrator be captured alive.