MOSCOW. Dec 23 (Interfax-AVN) - Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov has said he hopes that militant leader Doku Umarov will be "eliminated" soon.
"So far, he is alive. But we will soon try to take measures to make sure that he is no longer alive," Kadyrov told Interfax on Wednesday.
The Chechen president, however, admitted that Umarov's whereabouts were still unknown.
"We would have eliminated him a long time ago if we knew his whereabouts," he said.