The ISIS group on Wednesday released a video in which a Russian-speaking man confesses to spying for Russia’s security service and then is shown apparently being beheaded by another Russian-speaking m
The ISIS group on Wednesday released a video in which a Russian-speaking man confesses to spying for Russia’s security service and then is shown apparently being beheaded by another Russian-speaking man.
The authenticity of the video or the claims in it could not immediately be confirmed and there was no comment from Russia’s foreign ministry or its FSB security service.
There was also no indication when and where the video was produced.
The video begins with a graphic in Arabic and Russian, saying “You will be conquered and humiliated, O Russians.” Then a bearded man appearing to be in his late 20s is shown speaking from a chair. He says he is from Chechnya, identifies himself as Magomed Khasayev and says he is a spy sent to ISIS-held territories with orders from Russian intelligence to identify fighters who seek to return to the Caucasus region to carry out attacks. He says he was pressured into working for the FSB, to report on Russians who had gone to fight with the ISIS.
He says he traveled to Turkey and then was sent by an ISIS recruiter to Iraq, and had contacts with his Russian intelligence handler, but was arrested by ISIS.
The video then shifts to showing the man kneeling on a beach while another man stands behind him, delivering a speech to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The man, brandishing a knife, says in Russian, “Listen to me, Putin, you dog” and declaring that Russians will be killed in retaliation for Russia’s airstrikes in Syria against ISIS.
