Suspected members of the Islamic State group were seen in a new nine-minute video, sourced from Telegram, that was released on Sunday, warning Russian President Vladmir Putin that they would kill Russians.
The latest warning by ISIS to Russia comes after the group claimed responsibility for attacks in France, Germany, Afghanistan, Turkey and Belgium.
"Listen Putin, we will come to Russia and will kill you at your homes ...Oh Brothers, carry out jihad and kill and fight them," a masked man driving a car in the desert, yelled, while wagging his finger, as he called on ISIS fighters to attack the country.
According to Reuters, the video link was posted on a Telegram messaging account used by ISIS. "Breaking into a barrack of the Rejectionist military on the international road south Akashat [Anbar province, Iraq]," one subtitle read.
The militant group has issued similar threats to Russia and Putin in the past. In March, a video showed the execution of an alleged Russian spy. The video, released by ISIS' division in the Northern Caucasus region of the country, called on Muslims in Russia to "kill apostates" in the country and threatened to carry out an attack on Putin.
In the video, the group's militants reportedly urged Russian Muslims to team up with ISIS, fight against the West. The ISIS claimed that "the Caliphate is already here."
That was followed up with another video released in the same month. Titled "Illness & Healing," in the video, an ISIS militant tries to evoke the past of Muslims in the Caucasus and their "struggles" with Russian "infidels."
Another similar video released in November of last year, titled, "Soon, Very Soon the Blood Will Spill Like an Ocean," featured background music interspersed with clips of their gruesome propaganda videos and included hostile lyrics targeting Russia.
The text of the translated lyrics:
Soon, very soon
The blood will spill like an ocean
The kafir throats
Will tremble from the knives.
The lions of the ummah have awoken.
They raised their swords,
Strengthening the ummah.
Day after day.
The soldiers of Allah
Know not fear.
For [monotheism]
Has guided them to Allah.
We will strike the idol,
The cross, and the [idolaters].
With energy we raise,
The black in the hearts.O filthy kafir,
You are not brave at all.
The sound of your voice
Has been silenced.
The khilafah was built.
We will take through battle
The lands of yours we wish.
So much of your lands.We will make your wives
Concubines
And make your children
Our slaves.
Your resources will do you no good.
They will not save you from becoming,
Slaves to the nation of sons,
The brave knights.We came to you with slaughter,
Defying death.
In your gun barrel
We have seen paradise.
The snipers are ready
And from their places
Target
Your heedles places.We will return all our lands.
No one ignores this
Except for the fool
Or the blind.
Europe is shaking.
Russia is dying.
With destructive death.We will bring back [the Caucasus]
And will not permit the rule
Of the dark forces another time.
The Kremlin will be ours.
The Ural will return.
Kafir will shake.
We want the sharia in [Tatarstan].The Russian city will be shocked by ["God is great"].
Here is Moscow!
Whoever wants to live
Will have to pay [non-Muslim tax]
If he refuses Islam.These are our words
In your major cities
We will corner you.
You won't be able to escape.
Nor spread your corruption.
You will live a life of humiliation
Only from now on.
In the hereafter,
Hellfire awaits you.
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