Two federal lawmakers have denied ordering the assassination of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov after he declared a “blood feud” against them and a senator amid a dispute over the merger of Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries.

"There are witnesses, there are people from whom they tried to commission, whom they asked how much they would take for the order," Ramzan Kadyrov said in Chechen to other officials from the North Caucasian republic.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov accused Russian lawmakers of plotting his assassination. He threatened a 'blood feud' unless they prove their innocence. Citing sources, Kadyrov named three lawmakers from Dagestan and Ingushetia as conspirators.

Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Russia's Chechnya region, has accused Russian lawmakers from neighbouring regions of attempting to commission his assassination, and threatened them with a "blood feud", the state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused three Russian deputies of plotting his assassination and has threatened them with 'blood feud.' In Chechen culture, this means killing the enemy or a male member of their family,

According to the reports, Kadyrov first brought up a conflict involving the online marketplace Wildberries. In that dispute, Kerimov sided with the company’s founder, Tatyana Kim, while Kadyrov took the side of her now ex-husband,