RT
Moscow has called on Central Asian nations to reject any plans for NATO troops to be stationed in the region around Afghanistan, following the US-led bloc’s hurried withdrawal from Kabul and the fall of the city to the Taliban.
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that, “we once again request that Afghanistan’s neighboring countries prevent the military presence of the US and NATO on their soil, as they plan to move in there in light of the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
Earlier that day, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Yuri Kokov, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, said that the US is seeking to boost its military presence in the region, under the pretense of conducting anti-terrorism operations.
