The Taliban have received improved weaponry in Afghanistan that appears to have been supplied by the Russian government, according to exclusive videos obtained by CNN, adding weight to accusations by Afghan and American officials that Moscow is arming their one-time foe in the war-torn country. US generals first suggested they were concerned the Russian government was seeking to arm the Afghan insurgents back in April, but images from the battlefield here corroborating these claims have been hard to come by. These two videos show sniper rifles, Kalashnikov variants and heavy machine guns that weapons experts say are stripped of any means of identifying their origin. https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/asia/taliban-weapons-afghanistan/index.html
Putin sends a clear message to corrupt governments around the worlds: America will not protect you but I can (see Assad in Syria: 500 thousand deaths, 7 million refugees).
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Date: 2021-08-21 10:34 am (UTC)Four years ago:
The Taliban have received improved weaponry in Afghanistan that appears to have been supplied by the Russian government, according to exclusive videos obtained by CNN, adding weight to accusations by Afghan and American officials that Moscow is arming their one-time foe in the war-torn country.
US generals first suggested they were concerned the Russian government was seeking to arm the Afghan insurgents back in April, but images from the battlefield here corroborating these claims have been hard to come by.
These two videos show sniper rifles, Kalashnikov variants and heavy machine guns that weapons experts say are stripped of any means of identifying their origin.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/asia/taliban-weapons-afghanistan/index.html
Putin sends a clear message to corrupt governments around the worlds: America will not protect you but I can (see Assad in Syria: 500 thousand deaths, 7 million refugees).