“We call for the immediate return of the stolen funds to the Afghan people, including those women and girls you are talking about today,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Nebenzya noted that the situation with the unfreezing of Afghanistan's assets "looks outrageous."

Earlier, Nebenzya called the US attempts to shift responsibility for the situation in Afghanistan hypocritical.

On June 23, Deputy Head of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov, said that since August 2021, the Afghan economy has contracted by 30-40%.