“Nobody is considering or talking about it, there have been no such requests at the moment,” TASS quotes him.

Thus, he answered a journalist's question about whether there were any relevant requests from the Afghan military or anyone else.

On August 17, a source said that the forces of the Afghan vice president are fighting the Taliban in Parwan province north of Kabul and in the Panjshir region, and 10,000 troops are being sent to the region under the leadership of Marshal Abdul-Rashid Dostum.

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