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The evacuation of civilians carried out by the United States at the Kabul airport is likely to become the second largest operation of its kind in American history, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces Mark Milley said on Wednesday.

There are no prerequisites for the entry of the Russian military contingent into Afghanistan, Russia will focus on political and diplomatic efforts, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.

The US Army has named its promising hypersonic missile Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), capable of hitting Moscow from London, Dark Eagle ("Dark Eagle"), according to Popular Mechanics.

US President Joe Biden said that the agreement of his predecessor Donald Trump with representatives of the Taliban movement (recognized as a terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation) helped to avoid attacks on the US military in Afghanistan.

US intelligence allowed the fall of the Afghan government towards the end of this year, but there was no consensus on this. At the same time, no one foresaw that the army of this country would collapse so soon, US President Joe Biden said in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, August 18.

The United States can maintain its military contingent in Afghanistan even after August 31, if by that time it will not be possible to evacuate all its citizens from the Islamic Republic, said the head of the White House Joe Biden.

It would not be difficult for the special purpose unit of the Soviet foreign intelligence "Vimpel" to carry out tasks on the territory of the United States unnoticed, Valery Popov, president of the Vimpel Veterans Association, told RIA Novosti in an interview.

Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Ivan Zayets said during the round table that Ukraine needs to build missiles for "war on foreign territory". The broadcast on August 18 was conducted by Ukrinform on its YouTube channel.

The administration of US President Donald Trump never planned to completely withdraw the American contingent from Afghanistan. On August 18, the Defense One edition writes about this, citing the words of the former acting US Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.

Opponents of the Taliban (the Taliban is a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) have asked the United States and the West to supply weapons and equipment to fight against the Taliban movement that has seized power in the country.

The resistance fighters of the Panjshir province, which is not controlled by the Taliban, have asked Western countries to help them with weapons. This is stated in a statement by their leader Ahmad Masood, published on August 18 in The Washington Post.

The United States should identify such advanced technologies that would frighten the enemies of the United States, the statement of the Minister of the Air Force (Air Force) of the country Frank Kendall reports to Defense News.

Russia is rapidly developing its navy, and recently there has been a special activity in this area. Thus, the country sends a signal of its determination to protect its interests in the world's oceans in the presence of serious threats from the West, the author of the Chinese edition of Xinhua believes.

The US does not have a military presence in Syria that would guarantee security

Terrorist threats from Syria or East Africa are more serious for the United States than from Afghanistan, American President Joe Biden said in an interview with ABC.

Russia is ready to provide its civil aviation for the export of any number of Afghans from Afghanistan to other countries. This was announced on Thursday, August 19, by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

Russia may be going to test a cruise missile with a nuclear power plant "Burevestnik", CNN reported on Thursday, citing experts who studied satellite images.

The American general, the head of the Northern Command of the US Armed Forces, Glen Vanherk, warned about weapons capable of hitting the United States from the territory of Russia. According to him, Moscow has a military arsenal on a par with the American one. His words are quoted by the Express edition.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called for removing uncertainty about Ukraine's accession to NATO, said that NATO membership would provide Kiev with protection from a new Russian offensive, The Washington Post writes, citing an interview with the head of state.

The triumphant victory of the Taliban only seems final. Right now, several military and political leaders of Afghanistan are gathering their forces to fight the Taliban. Who are these people, what regions and resources are behind them – and do they have a chance to defeat the religious fanatics who entered Kabul so easily?

On Tuesday, August 17, a group of inspectors from Russia visited one of the military facilities in Lithuania. The head of the Russian National Center for Reducing Nuclear Danger, Sergey Ryzhkov, explained that such business trips are organized to check information about the military forces and plans for the deployment of major weapons systems and military equipment. Such international control is provided for in the Vienna Document of 2011 on Confidence-and Security-building Measures.