“Today at 15:45 (22:45 Moscow time) I will address the people on the situation in Afghanistan,” the president said on Twitter.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby previously confirmed the evacuation of several hundred Americans from Afghanistan, including embassy officials and ordinary citizens.
According to the official representative of the radical Taliban * Mohammad Naim, hostilities on the territory of the state are over.
The Taliban intend to soon announce from the presidential palace in Kabul about the creation of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan".
* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.