As Western diplomats scrambled to Kabul airport while the Taliban overran the city last weekend, Russia's embassy there remained demonstratively open and announced its diplomats would work as normal.
Three decades after the Soviet Union's own disastrous intervention into Afghanistan, Russia's overriding concern is that instability in Afghanistan not spread to its Central Asian neighbors Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and that it not again become a base for international terrorist groups to launch attacks.
"As for the domestic situation in Afghanistan, Russia fortunately has no interests there. There are no stakes inside Afghanistan this time and Russia can relax and limit its reactions to the security interests of the region," he said by phone.Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after their bilateral meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Aug. 20, 2021.
"It's a hopeful sign," he said."But we are trusting people of course, but not to that degree. We will carefully follow next steps."
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