Zakharova recalled that during the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, American troops left military equipment worth $7 billion in the country, and later Washington decided to freeze Afghan assets for a similar amount.
“Due to catastrophic miscalculations in military planning, total corruption on the ground and a lack of understanding of the situation in Afghanistan, the Americans, after a shameful flight from this country, left their property there.
Realizing that no one would return it to them, they decided that they would not give money to the Afghan people, for the sake of whose freedom, according to them, they fought for 20 years, ”she wrote on Telegram.
According to Zakharova, with such actions, the United States punished the Afghan people, "who suffer from hunger, cold and disease."
“Punished for their mistakes.
This is the height of cynicism, ”concluded Zakharova.
Earlier it became known that US President Joe Biden signed a decree on blocking $ 7 billion of assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan stored in US banks.
Afghan assets held in US bank accounts were sent to a single special trust fund at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
UN human rights experts expressed concern over the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and called on the US authorities to unlock the assets of the country's Central Bank worth more than $7 billion.