Putin has very little reason to love jihadis. or,,, a loss of memory.
The Soviet Union under Gorbachev kidnapped and killed Imad Mughniyeh’s nephew in 1985 to threaten Hezbollah into releasing four Russian diplomats. Mughniyeh was Nasrallah’s right-hand-man. Of course, Russia and Hezbollah have reconciled since then, cooperating in Syria to prop up Assad.