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MOSCOW, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The Islamic State threatened to attack Russia "very soon" in a video the militant group released on social media. The five-minute video, posted on an Islamic State-affiliated social media account Thursday, comes just more than a month after Russia's military involvement in Syria and two weeks after a Russian passenger plane was brought down by a suspected IS bomb.
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Titled "Soon Very Soon the Blood Will Spill like an Ocean," the video, which also vows attacks on Europe, features chanting in Russian over images of various IS propaganda and Russian cities.
The makers vow the "Kremlin will be ours," in a Russian voice. "We will take through battle the lands of yours we wish."
More scenes of bloodshed and a world map follow, as the narrator announces "Hellfire awaits you. Europe is shaking, Russia is dying."
Russian security is attempting to verify the video's authenticity.
"I've read news about this video, but have not seen it myself. I don't know the authenticity of this video, and I don't know the authenticity of these sources, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Moscow.
Russia has been threatened before by terrorists, but the video becomes more significant in light of President Vladimir Putin's recent support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with Russian air power. If Syria becomes a radical Islamist state supporting terrorism, there could be major repercussions in Russia's own Muslim region in the Caucasus.
