MOSCOW, 11 Aug. Hundreds of Afghan security personnel have surrendered to Taliban fighters * near the town of Kunduz, near the border with Tajikistan, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Kunduz Provincial Councilor Amruddin Wali. at the airport, surrendered to the Taliban with all their equipment, «he said.
Shoigu called on the CSTO to prepare for the invasion of militants from Afghanistan In the republic there is a confrontation between government forces and the Taliban, who seized significant territories in rural areas and launched an offensive on large cities. Instability is growing amid the withdrawal of American troops from the country. On August 6, the Taliban announced the seizure of the city of Zaranj, the administrative center of the Nimroz province in southwestern Afghanistan, and then — that the militants occupied the administrative centers of another eight of 34 regions, including the city of Kunduz, 60 kilometers from the nearest border crossing in Tajikistan. According to Western media, the transfer of Kunduz to the control of the Taliban may mean a turning point in the development of the situation in the republic. At the same time, the Afghan authorities denied information about the loss of control over the city. On August 10, militants reported that they had taken Puli-Khumri, the main city of Baghlan province. It is located on the strategically important road from Kabul to Mazar-i-Sharif, the largest settlement in the north of the country. About a hundred kilometers south of Puli-Khumri, there is the Salang tunnel, built by Soviet specialists, which is located in the area of the pass of the same name in the Hindu Kush mountains. * Terrorist organization banned in Russia.
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