The Pentagon denied reports on the cessation of evacuation from Kabul after 36 hours: according to the representative of the defense department, the evacuation will continue until the mission is completed – August 31. About this on its page on Twitter wrote Representative of John Kirby Office.
“Evacuation operations in Kabul will not be completed after 36 hours. We will continue to evacuate as many people as possible until the mission is completed,” Kirby said.
Previously, the CNN TV channel reported that the United States intends to turn the evacuation during the next 36 hours. Sources of the TV channel stated that since only 150 Americans remained in Afghanistan, the main priority will be the removal from the country of Afghans, who collaborated with the coalition troops.
On the eve it became known that the United States and their allies were able to evacuate 19 thousand people during the day from Afghanistan. According to the deputy press secretary of the White House of the United States Andrew Bates, from August 14, Washington took more than 82 thousand people from the country. “Since July, we have evacuated – 87.9 thousand people,” added Bates.