A detailed good friend of Vladimir Putin has hit out at rumours that he's on his deathbed in a weird video through which he claims he “does not want to live long”. Ramzan Kadyrov, the pinnacle of Chechnya, a republic of the Russian Federation positioned subsequent door to Georgia, was filmed alongside Russian MP Adam Delimkhanov joking about his well being.

During the conflict in Ukraine, Putin promoted Kadyrov to colonel-general within the Russian nationwide guard, giving the Chechen extra energy. He already controls nationwide guards with a power of as much as 30,000 and has plans for his personal non-public military.

Ramzan Kadyrov, 46, is seen alongside good friend and Russian MP Adam Delimkhanov within the clip, through which the pair vow to “continue to carry out the tasks” residents need achieved.

Kadyrov has been rumoured to be affected by “kidney failure”, whereas Delimkhanov himself was reported final month to have been killed or wounded within the conflict in Ukraine after being focused by a missile strike.

In the video, Mr Delimkhanov says: “It is precisely for such small-minded people that we, together with our dear brother, the Head of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov have recorded a video clip. Well? What do you say now?”

“We are still alive somehow,” Kadyrov then provides. “Anyway, we don’t want to live long. We will live a short but decent life.”

In March, after being pushed into the mountains of his fiefdom within the TransCaucasus, he posted: “For those who console themselves with the hope that I am terminally ill, I am sorry to upset you. I am healthy and full of energy.”

He admitted that “people claim I have different diseases - sometimes I [am presumed to] have problems with my kidneys, sometimes with my liver”.

Kadyrov has dominated Chechnya for 16 years and boasts he has been sanctioned by the West greater than every other particular person.

He is broadly accused of human rights abuses.