“These are important suspicions. If they are confirmed, I guarantee that the president will take serious measures, ”RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.

According to her, the American authorities worked for several months on options for the President of the United States in case "this is unsupported, as the Department of Defense calls, the evidence will be true."

In late June, 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.

Later, the Russian Foreign Ministry called this publication "unpretentious stuffing." As noted in the department, this clearly illustrates the "low intellectual ability of propagandists from American intelligence."

US President Donald Trump, in turn, called the article "ordering."

The Taliban spokesman also said the movement “strongly rejects” the newspaper’s allegations.

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