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Afghanistan Hopes for More Military Support From Russia The US has supplied Afghan forces with Russian-made helicopters
Tass News Agency that Kabul hopes Moscow can boost its support for the Afghan forces.
“We are hoping that Russia will consider repairing the existing Russian equipment, especially helicopters,” he said. For years, the US has been providing the Afghan military with Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters. From 2011 to 2013, the US bought 73 Mi-17s for the Afghan military.
After the US slapped sanctions on Russia over Crimea in 2014, Washington relied on India to purchase Russian-made helicopters for Afghanistan. US sanctions prohibit Western countries from purchasing Russian-made military equipment.
(Last Updated On: May 29, 2021)
National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib said on Saturday that the Taiban’s supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has not been seen in the last year – which has again raised questions about whether he is dead or alive.
Mohib said in a press conference in Kabul Saturday that intelligence findings indicate that Taliban members have not had any contact with Akhundzada in the past 12 months.
He said: “The Taliban have had no contact with Mullah Hibatullah in the last 12 months. There is no information available whether he is alive or dead. No one has heard his voice and no one has met with him [in this time]. Intelligence information proves it.”
Said Tayeb Jawad pointed out that five months since Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov’s statement on a possible handover of a batch of Sputnik V vaccine to Afghanistan, there has been no progress