Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the 20-year US presence in Afghanistan only resulted in tragedies. “For twenty years, American troops had been on this [Afghan] territory and for twenty years they tried – one can say this without offending anyone – to civilize the people who live there, ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin deems it important to prevent the spillover of extremism from Afghanistan into the territories of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)’s member states and the recruitment of citizens into the ranks of militants, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. “The problem of Afghan drug ...
