Moscow is worried about the risk of penetration of terrorists and extremists from Afghanistan through Central Asia to Russia. This was told about the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharov during a briefing, the broadcast of which was carried out on the YouTube channel Russia Today.
she added that with the coming to power in Afghanistan the terrorist movement “Taliban” (prohibited in the Russian Federation), the terrorist and narcotic threat did not decrease in the country. According to the diplomat, the creation of normal living conditions in the Afghan state will lead to the fact that its inhabitants will disappear to run to other countries.
However, Zakharov noted, such a job is included in the US liability zone, which was present in the Afghan territory for the last 20 years. She recalled that the American armed forces left a significant military infrastructure after their evacuation.
The representative of the Foreign Ministry also stated that the teachings that conduct the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the Tajik-Afghan border are planned. They are held in the area of responsibility of the organization, interaction in the threats from Afghanistan has been established between its members.
Earlier it became known about the terrorist attack in the Afghan Military Hospital in Kabul. A terrorist homework “Islamic state” (a terrorist organization forbidden in Russia) arranged a self-separation at the entrance to the hospital. After that, his accomplices penetrated inside, staged a shootout in the institution and blew up the second bomb.