Its official social media channel o powerful Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and a strong ally of President Vladimir Putin showed a video of him today Kadyrovdenying social media reports that his health is in poor condition.

Asked this week about reports that the 46-year-old Chechen leader is being treated in a Moscow hospital, the Kremlin said it had no information on the matter.

But the video posted on Kadyrov’s Telegram channel shows him sitting next to the bed of a man he calls “our dear uncle Magomed Abtnulhamidovich Kadyrov” whom he kisses on the hand and head. It is unclear when the video was shot.

“Glory to the Almighty, I am alive and well, and I do not understand at all, why should there be a fuss even in the case of my illness?” refers to the post, which is said to have been written by Kadyrov himself.

Spokesmen for the Chechen leader did not return repeated calls to him earlier this week to comment on reports that Kadyrov is ill.