Dmitry Zhirnov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Archival photoMOSCOW, Aug 15The United States has «taken their feet» from Afghanistan, but they cannot erase their guilt for the country's troubles and must pay «for broken pots», Russian Ambassador to the country Dmitry Zhirnov said in an interview RIA Novosti on the anniversary of the change of power in Kabul. «The Americans have taken their toll. But in the minds of ordinary Afghans, they cannot erase their guilt for the troubles of Afghanistan. They must pay for broken pots. Our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has repeatedly expressed this idea,» Zhirnov said .At the beginning of August 2021, the Taliban (the Taliban movement *) intensified their offensive against the government forces of Afghanistan, on August 15 they entered Kabul and the next day declared that the war was over. Until the end of August, from the Kabul airport, which was under the protection of the US military, there was a mass evacuation of citizens of Western countries and Afghans who collaborated with them. On the night of August 31, the US military left the Kabul airport, ending nearly 20 years of US military presence in Afghanistan. In early September, the composition of the interim government of Afghanistan, headed by Mohammad Hassan Akhund, was announced. *The movement is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities Russia has about a million barrels of oil
