“As it turns out, we managed to achieve a pace that exceeded even our most optimistic expectations in terms of the number of people who were able to leave (Afghanistan. -
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In fact, we are overfulfilling the plan for the number of evacuations, "TASS quotes him.
According to him, due to the outstripping pace of evacuation of people, the US authorities need more beds and other items in transit centers where evacuees are temporarily located.
Earlier, American General Hank Taylor said that the US authorities were currently using 18 planes of six American commercial airlines to evacuate Afghanistan from Afghanistan.
On August 20, American leader Joe Biden expressed the hope that American troops will be able to complete the evacuation of US citizens from Afghanistan by August 31 of this year.