The Russian Embassy in Kabul on Monday rejected reports of Moscow’s support of the Taliban and said the claims were groundless.
In a statement issued by the embassy, they said: “The Embassy of the Russian Federation notes the continuing series of groundless accusations against Russia about alleged support of the Taliban movement by Moscow.
“It is surprising that statesmen, deputies and high-ranking police officers based on rumors and conjectures and without providing the public any evidence allow themselves to publicly make irresponsible accusations against Russia in financing and supporting terrorism.”
The embassy named numerous reports and stated they were baseless. Among the mentioned reports was the most recent that claimed a high-ranking Russian delegation had visited a Taliban base in Waziristan in Pakistan as well as earlier reports that with Russia’s help, bases had been set up along the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border to service and repair the armor and vehicles of the Taliban.
Russia rejected all these claims and said in their statement “a staged campaign of the so-called black PR people is clearly visible who are quite professionally able to distract from the failures of their own employers and divert attention to a non-existent enemy.
“The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Afghanistan once again emphasizes that all accusations of financial and logistical support of the Taliban movement are simply not true and at the present difficult stage of finding ways to establish a peace process such actions of black PR people are counterproductive.”
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