WASHINGTON, (CGTN) - The White House denied Saturday that President Donald Trump had been advised on insight that allegedly demonstrated Russia had offered bounties to Taliban-connected activists on the off chance that they killed U.S. officers in Afghanistan.
The prizes purportedly offered motivators to the guerrillas to target U.S. powers, similarly as Trump attempts to pull back soldiers – meeting one of the aggressors' key requests – and end America's longest war.
Russia has likewise reprimanded the report, with its government office in Washington tweeting that the "unjustifiable and unknown allegations" in the Times story had "just prompted direct dangers to the life of representatives" at its international safe havens in Washington and London.
"Quit creating #fakenews that incite life dangers, @nytimes," it included a later tweet.
Russia has a tormented history in Afghanistan, where the previous Soviet Union in its last years was impeded in an overwhelming battle against Islamist guerrillas, at that point upheld by Washington.
The Times said there were various hypotheses on why Russia would bolster Taliban assaults, including a craving to keep Washington impeded in war.
It said that the Russian unit may likewise be looking for vengeance over the U.S. slaughtering of Russian hired soldiers in Syria, where Moscow backs President Bashar al-Assad.
As indicated by the paper, the Taliban activity was driven by a unit known as the G.R.U., which has been accused in various worldwide episodes including a 2018 substance weapons assault in Britain that almost executed Russian-brought into the world twofold operator Sergei Skripal.
It was first revealed by The New York Times on Friday. The paper, refering to unknown authorities, said that Trump was advised on the discoveries in March, yet has not concluded how to react.
Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said "neither the President nor the Vice President were informed on the supposed Russian abundance knowledge."
Be that as it may, she included: "This doesn't address the value of the supposed knowledge yet to the error of The New York Times story mistakenly proposing that President Trump was informed on this issue."
That left open the chance such knowledge exists.
Taliban and Russia deny the report
The Taliban have denied the report, emphasizing that it was focused on an understanding marked with Washington in February that prepares for pulling back every outside power from Afghanistan by one year from now.
The aggressors likewise said natively constructed explosives represent most fatalities among U.S. powers.
"The nineteen-year jihad of the Islamic Emirate isn't obliged to the value of any knowledge organ or remote nation," the Taliban said in an announcement gave in Kabul.
The gathering, broadly accepted to have gotten long stretches of help from Pakistani insight, additionally denied past U.S. allegations it was given arms by Russia.
"The Islamic Emirate has utilized weapons, offices and devices ... that were at that point present in Afghanistan or are war ruins much of the time seized from the restriction in fights," it said.
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