“We see now that a significant part of the equipment left, including in the hands of the Afghan forces, which then fell to the Taliban, judging by what my colleagues from the US Department of Defense tell me, cannot function or will soon cease to function, so how it needs to be serviced, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
He noted that it does not represent any major strategic value - in terms of creating a threat to the United States or Afghanistan's neighbors.
Earlier, Blinken announced contacts with the Taliban on evacuation issues.
* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.