In response to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s statement to include Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov in the US ‘black list’, Kadyrov said he ‘accepts the challenge, and the future will be more interesting’, RIA Novosti reports.

The US Department of State on Monday declared that Kadyrov would be included in the US ‘blacklist’ for violation of human rights.

“Pompeo, we accept the challenge. The future will be more interesting,” Kadyrov wrote on his Telegram channel. Kadyrov also posted a photo of him in a weapon storehouse.