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The Taliban were able to capture Kandahar because of the flight of Afghan troops, Zamir Kabulov, special representative of the Russian President for Afghanistan, director of the Second Department of Asia of the Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, highly appreciated the joint actions of Russian and Chinese servicemen during the Sibu/Interaction-2021 exercise, the active phase of which took place in the People's Republic of China at the Qingtunxia training ground.

Residents of Poland could not come to a common opinion about the likelihood of a Russian attack on their country, the weekly newspaper Do Rzeczy writes with reference to the wPolityce portal.

The columnist of the Popular Mechanics publication was amazed at the readiness of the special forces of the two countries to overcome any obstacles, including passing through "rings of fire" on the obstacle course.

The Afghan government is trying to maintain control over the country. On August 12, The Wall Street Journal reported that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appointed Major General Haibatullah Alizai as the Chief of staff of the Afghan army.

The deployment of the US military in the countries of Central Asia will make them hostages of American politics, they are not interested in this, he said

Russia is concerned about the possibility of the situation in Afghanistan spreading to Central Asia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The head of the British Defense Ministry, Ben Wallace, criticized the withdrawal of Washington's military contingent from Afghanistan, saying that the international community is likely to suffer from the consequences of this US decision, Sky News reported on Friday.

The government delegation of Afghanistan has not been interested in negotiations with the Taliban for a year and a half or two

Moscow regrets that the Taliban (the Taliban movement, banned in the Russian Federation) are trying to resolve the situation in Afghanistan by force, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

In the Primorsky Territory, a joint Russian-Lao exercise "Laros-2021"is being held on the territory of the Sergeyevsky training ground of the combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District (VVO).

President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation in the format of a videoconference from his residence near Moscow, Novo-Ogarevo. It was about joining forces with partners to ensure the security of the country.

"Today we are planning to discuss issues of international cooperation in the field of defense and security," Vladimir Putin announced. "We have talked with you many times that it is impossible to effectively solve a number of issues in this area alone and it is necessary to combine efforts with our partners in order to ensure our own security," he stressed.

Battalion exercises with 6 thousand servicemen are beginning on the territory of 10 regions of the Western Military District, the press service of the ZVO reported.

Former US President Donald Trump and former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the tactics chosen by the administration of current President Joe Biden regarding Afghanistan.

The Afghan Taliban (the Taliban movement is banned in Russia) have promised that they will not attack diplomatic facilities,US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on MSNBC.

The main part of the three-thousandth group of the US military, which will ensure the evacuation of employees of the US Embassy in Afghanistan, should arrive in Kabul by the end of this week, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at a briefing on Friday.

The United States has begun transferring additional forces to Afghanistan. The country's authorities intend to complete this process by the end of the week, said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.

The situation in Afghanistan is becoming unmanageable, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday. "The situation in Afghanistan is getting out of control. Over the past month alone, more than 1,000 people have been killed or injured as a result of indiscriminate attacks against civilians, especially in the provinces of Helmand, Kandahar and Herat," he told reporters.

Russia poses a threat to the United States because of its attempts to "sow discord" in Congress and destabilize the situation in the country, said the former head of the National Center for Counterintelligence and Security of the United States, William Evanina. He is quoted by the RT TV channel.

The US military considers the complete evacuation of the embassy in Afghanistan inevitable, according to the publication Politico. Earlier, the United States sent 3,000 military personnel to Afghanistan to speed up the evacuation of civilian employees of the embassy.

America may refuse to supply military equipment to Poland because of the authoritarian sentiments of the republic.

This was stated by Polish General Miroslav Ruzhansky, reports the publication Wirtualna Polska, writes Rubaltic.ru. 

Baku expects Moscow to fulfill all the points of the trilateral statement on Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said.