Chechen leader’s Telegram channel says he is ‘alive and well’

But a video posted on Kadyrov's Telegram channel showed him sitting at the bedside of a man said to be "our dear UNCLE Magomed Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov" and kissing him on the hand and head. "Praise be to the Almighty, I am alive and well and I don’t understand at all why there should be a fuss even in the case of my illness?" read the posting, purportedly written by Kadyrov himself. Spokespeople for the Chechen leader did not answer repeated phone calls earlier in the week seeking comment on the reports that he was ill.