Uzbekistan temporarily posted about 650 Afghan army soldiers who escaped the Taliban authorities (Taliban movement in Russia), in the COVID center near the local military landfill. This is reported by “Sputnik Uzbekistan” with reference to its source in the government of the republic.
According to him, the military arrived from Afghanistan by the aircraft. Presumably, they were part of the detachments of the Afghan Marshal Abduraxide Dustum, who allegedly fled to Uzbekistan after the defeat of the Afghan government in the fight against the Radical Grouping of the Taliban.
The source also said that the authorities of the republic agreed to put in a tent camp near the border of about 150 Afghan refugees, among which there are women and children. It is noted that before placement, all Afghans were tested for coronavirus infection. He added that all the arrivals had the first medical assistance and provided the necessary things and food.
On August 17, Uzbekistan’s authorities denied the data on flight to the country of Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and the only Afghan Marshal, Ethnic Uzbek Abdul Rashid Dustum.
On the evening of August 16, Uzbek security forces were detained on the border with Afghanistan more than 150 military and civilians who tried to illegally penetrate the country, fleeing from the Taliban.
Previously, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Uzbekistan reported that for 14 and 15 August, the airspace of the republic was trying to break 22 aircraft and 24 helicopters from the territory of the neighboring Afghanistan, on board which was without a small 600 people. Later, the department denied this information.