“Review the film“ The tail wags the dog, ”see how political campaigns and election campaigns in the United States are supported by scriptwriters and Hollywood directors ... This has been happening for many years,” she said on Rossiya 24.

According to Zakharova, this situation with a newspaper article is part of the political struggle in the United States.

“There is not much time left before the elections, by their standards, you need to put pressure on the gas, push all the buttons, which they do. There is a fact of fake, another stuffing, which was carried out, possibly by American intelligence agencies. Perhaps by American politicians, ”the diplomat added.

The representative of the Foreign Ministry recalled that the material was refuted by the Russian side immediately.

At the end of June, The New York Times, citing sources, published its first article alleging that Russian military intelligence allegedly offered rewards to Taliban-related 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 representative * also stated that 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.