Promised to return: Ghani made an appeal after escaping from Afghanistan

President Ashraf Ghani, who fled Afghanistan, made a video message in which he explained his actions as an attempt to prevent bloodshed.

He confirmed that he is in the UAE.

Earlier, similar information was published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this state, specifying that Ghani and his family were received in the country for humanitarian reasons.

“I was forced to leave Kabul, I did not want to cause bloodshed in the capital.

I was in the palace when the guards told me that something like a coup had happened when the Taliban entered the capital, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

He also denied information that he left the country with a lot of money.

He stated that he "left the country in one shirt, turban and shoes."

Ghani added that he was able to take "only a few books in one bag."

Along with this, he stated that he intends to return to Afghanistan in the near future.

Let us remind you that on August 16, representatives of the Taliban * announced the end of the war in Afghanistan.

Shortly before that, they occupied the capital of the state and declared that the republic was entirely under their control.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country shortly thereafter.

Subsequently, various information was published about Ghani's whereabouts, which was not confirmed.

After the flight of Ghani and the seizure of power in the republic by the Taliban, Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh declared himself head of state.

In his Twitter, he called for the residents of Afghanistan to resist the Taliban.

As Saleh put it, the Afghans "have not lost their fortitude."

The Taliban, meanwhile, continue to make statements about the future of the Afghan state.

A spokesman for the Wahidullah Hashimi movement told Reuters that Afghanistan will not be a democratic country and will live according to Sharia law.

According to him, there are no grounds for a democratic government in Afghanistan, the country will be ruled by a Taliban council.

The head of the organization, Haybatullah Akhundzada, will become the supreme leader.

Shooting in Jalalalbad

According to media reports, in Afghanistan at least three people were killed and 10 injured in shooting during a demonstration in Jalalabad.

As reported by the Al Jazeera TV channel, citing a source in the security forces, members of the Taliban movement opened fire on the demonstrators in support of the national flag of Afghanistan.

According to the Pajhwok agency, similar demonstrations took place in the Afghan city of Khost.

In addition, AP reports that the Taliban have destroyed a statue of Afghan Shiite leader Abdul Ali Mazari, erected in Bamiyan province.

Ali Mazari fought against the radical movement in the 1990s.

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According to the agency, photos of a destroyed statue dedicated to Ali Mazari, who was killed by the Taliban in 1995, have appeared on social networks.

In 2016, he was posthumously awarded the title of Martyr of National Unity.

The statue was located in the center of Bamiyan province, where in 2001 the Taliban blew up two ancient rock-carved Buddha statues.

Pakistani human rights activist Salim Javed posted photos of the destroyed statue on his Twitter.

"It was confirmed that the statue of Shaheed Mazari was blown up and desecrated ... Immediately after the assurances of a Taliban representative about" amnesty "and respect for the fundamental rights of all citizens at a press conference in Kabul," Javed wrote.

US military in Kabul

The Pentagon, meanwhile, confirmed that the US military was opening fire at the Kabul airport to contain the crowd.

This was announced by the press secretary of the US Defense Department, John Kirby, noting that there is no evidence of anyone killed or wounded as a result of the shooting.

Along with this, Kirby spoke about the presence of the American military in Kabul.

According to him, 4.5 thousand US troops are currently at the airport of the capital of Afghanistan, and several hundred more troops will arrive in the next 24 hours.

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Earlier, the US Air Force reported that human remains were found in the landing gear compartment of the C17 aircraft, which surrounded hundreds of people on the runway at the Kabul airport.

They were found at the Al-Udeid airbase in Qatar.

Before that, footage from the Kabul airport appeared on the network.

They show how dozens of people climb onto the landing gear and fuselage of an American aircraft, which is in the process of taking off at the time of the photo.

Emergency hearings in the EU

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament and the EP delegation on relations with Afghanistan will hold an emergency hearing on August 19.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has been invited to the event.

Earlier Borrell said that the European Union should negotiate with members of the Taliban movement to prevent a possible humanitarian and migration crisis in Afghanistan.

As the head of European diplomacy noted, the dialogue should concern the search for ways to prevent the emergence of foreign terrorist forces in Afghanistan.

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