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The US army left a lot of high-precision weapons in Afghanistan. This was announced by the Russian Defense Minister, Army General Sergei Shoigu. In particular, these are portable anti-aircraft missile systems and anti-tank guided missiles, as well as the Javelin portable anti-tank missile system.
In an interview for the channel “Solovyov Live” on YouTube, Shoigu said that the agency is conducting an analysis of risks and threats in Afghanistan. In addition to drugs, this is a large number of weapons.
At the same time, he compared the weapons that the Taliban got (“Taliban”, a terrorist movement banned in Russia) with what the Ukrainian army has. According to Shoigu, several dozen Javelins were delivered to Ukraine from the United States. However, there are more than a hundred of them left in Afghanistan. “It was simply not delivered, but simply passed into the hands,” the minister stressed.
Earlier, Shoigu said that the militants of the Taliban terrorist movement banned in Russia in Afghanistan had seized a huge amount of weapons. Now they have more than a hundred MANPADS systems. According to him, this is “the first and main threat”. He noted that we are talking, in particular, about hundreds of armored vehicles, planes and helicopters.