Air defense units (air defense) of the South-Western Special Military District of Uzbekistan began military exercises in the Surkhandarya region on the border with Afghanistan. This is reported by “Sputnik Uzbekistan” with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic.
According to the defense department, maneuvers take place at the Termez polygon, through which hundreds of Afghan refugees and military fell into the country. The main purpose of the exercises is to improve the abilities of military units in combat actions in the areas of intensive aviation flights.
Previously, the General Prosecutor’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 neighboring Afghanistan, on board which was about 600 people. Later, the department denied this information.
On the evening of August 16, it was reported that 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 (Taliban, “, the movement is prohibited in Russia).
In the middle of August, the authorities in Afghanistan captured representatives of the Taliban radical movement, and the official leadership ran out of the country. Foreign states began mass evacuation of diplomats and citizens. The country also wanted to leave thousands of Afghans.