The Taliban (banned in Russia) denies information that it has received an offer from the Russian side to attack the US military for money, the Taliban political office representative Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai told reporters on Friday.
"This is totally untrue. We completely reject it," he said in response to a related question.
The US military occupied Afghanistan, he said, and the Taliban have been fighting them since 2001 without the need for anyone's money from abroad. "We are fighting the invaders without any reward for doing so," the movement representative said.
On June 26, 2020, The New York Times claimed that a certain Russian military intelligence unit had encouraged radical Taliban fighters to carry out attacks on international coalition troops in Afghanistan.
On June 29, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the aforementioned allegations lies and a "hoax". The Russian Foreign Ministry described the first publication on this topic in the American press as containing deliberately false information.
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Based on materials from TASS