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US President Joe Biden, having failed to cope with the situation in Afghanistan, suffered one of the most brutal defeats in American history, former President Donald Trump said.

In the southern military district, a combat army reserve composition is being formed - BARS. This is a kind of second front from the reserves, who will first be called into service in an emergency situation. For example, if there is a threat of armed conflict or aggression against our country. In peacetime, reservists will be trained at military training camps, and all the conditions of their temporary service, including financial, will be written in a special contract.

The United States military will respond in a mirror manner to any manifestation of aggression by the militants of the radical group "Taliban" (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) against the American population. This was announced on Sunday, August 15, by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.

In total, 2.5 thousand military personnel were involved in the exercises of the three countries

The servicemen of the armed forces of Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, who were involved in joint exercises that ended on August 10 in Tajikistan at the Harb-Maydon training ground 20 km from Afghanistan, returned to their permanent deployment points. This is stated in a message distributed on Monday by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO).

In the United States, they continue to create full-scale models depicting the military equipment of potential opponents. If earlier Soviet or Russian samples, such as the T-90, were mainly presented, now imitation of products of the military-industrial complex of the People's Republic of China has become increasingly common.

The capture of Kabul by the Taliban (the group is banned in the Russian Federation) was a kind of surprise for Russia, said the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation, director of the Second Department of Asia of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov.

The Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan on Monday, August 16, confirmed the fact of the crash of an Afghan Air Force plane in the Surkhandarya region of the republic.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called shocking the footage distributed on the Network, in which, presumably, two Afghans fell from a plane leaving Kabul.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said that after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the British military had no real opportunity to stay there alone, without allies, Sky News reports.

The candidate for Chancellor of Germany from the Christian Democratic Union of the CDU, Armin Laschet, called the capture of Afghanistan by the Taliban (the terrorist organization "Taliban" is banned in the Russian Federation) a defeat for NATO.

The militants of the Palestinian group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, congratulated the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) on the rapid capture of Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

The Armed Forces of Kazakhstan have taken measures to strengthen vigilance against the background of the aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan: the task has been set to monitor the situation in the region, organize round-the-clock duty of forces and means, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the republic reported.

Two pilots are in a serious condition in the hospital

An Afghan Air Force plane that crashed in Uzbekistan was shot down while trying to illegally cross the border, two pilots are in a serious condition in hospital, the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan reported on Monday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the operation of NATO forces in Afghanistan was not successful, lessons should be learned from what happened.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed the situation in Afghanistan during a telephone conversation on Monday.

Baku claims shelling from the Armenian side

An exchange of fire between Armenian and Azerbaijani servicemen took place on Monday evening on the Gegharkunik section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, there are dead on both sides, the Armenian Defense Ministry reports.

Russia is currently the world's leading country in the field of hypersonic weapons and missile defense systems (ABM), the head of the Strategic Command (STRATCOM)said US Armed Forces Admiral Charles Richard.

The United States is fully confident that if the Taliban (the Taliban movement, a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) captures Afghanistan, this government will not have recognition in the world community. This was stated at a regular briefing on Thursday, August 12, by the head of the press service of the State Department, Ned Price.

The Russian Federation avoids direct confrontation to strengthen its international role, but resorts to pressure against other countries and to cyber operations, the head of the US Strategic Command, Admiral Charles Richard, said on Thursday.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin assured in a telephone conversation with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that they continue to provide assistance to the Afghan government in the conditions of the offensive of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation), the US State Department said.