“Mr. Pompeo, I invited him to visit ... That's it, I cancel my invitation and announce that it will be included in all the sanctions that exist in the republic, up to and including blocking his accounts. They did the same to me, ”RIA Novosti quotes Kadyrov.
Earlier it was reported that Kadyrov, in response to the statement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the introduction of new sanctions against him, invited him to his ancestral village.
As it was specified, "the sanctions are being imposed because of Kadyrov's involvement in serious violations of human rights in the Chechen Republic."
The State Department said in a statement that the State Department "condemned threats of violence from the head of the Russian Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, against two journalists in connection with their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that Russia will find a way to respond to US sanctions against the head of Chechnya.