“We drew attention to the next information fake launched by the American intelligence community into the media about the alleged involvement of Russian military intelligence in the contract killings of US troops in Afghanistan,” RIA Novosti reports.

As diplomats noted, this "unpretentious stuffing" clearly illustrates the "low intellectual ability of propagandists from American intelligence."

“However, what else can be expected from intelligence, which failed miserably with the 20-year war in Afghanistan,” the ministry added.

They emphasized that in Afghanistan "the involvement of members of the American intelligence community in drug trafficking, cash payments to militants for the passage of transport caravans, kickbacks from contracts for the implementation of various projects paid by American taxpayers is no secret."

Earlier, The New York Times, citing sources, published an article alleging that Russian military intelligence allegedly offered rewards to Taliban * militants for attacks on American soldiers in Afghanistan.

As stated in the Russian embassy, ​​Russian diplomats in Washington and London after this publication began to receive threats.

* “Taliban” - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.