Putin welcomes Taliban: Russian president says West should not impose ‘external values’

Russian President Vladimir Putin is welcomed Taliban and said that the West should not impose ‘external values’ on Afghanistan.

Criticizing the “irresponsible policy”, he said that “you cannot impose the standards of political life and behavior on outsiders”. it comes as China The Taliban has also moved towards recognizing the regime.

Putin said it was not in Russia’s interest to focus on the outcome of a 20-year-old US military operation in Afghanistan that ended in humiliating scenes of chaos at Kabul airport as states try to evacuate their citizens.

And he called on allies to unite to help the people of Afghanistan, amid mounting evidence that the radical Islamist regime has immediately returned to brutally oppressing the population despite promising to be ‘liberal’.

Putin said Russia is interested in the country’s stability and called on the global community to stop Afghanistan’s “collapse” after the Taliban takeover.

“The Taliban movement controls almost the entire region of the country,” he told a televised news conference in the Kremlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“These are realities and it is from these realities that we must proceed to prevent the collapse of the Afghan state,” he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan and said it was important to establish good and neighborly relations with the new leadership.

Putin said it was not in Russia's interest to focus on the outcome of the 20-year-old US military operation in Afghanistan, he told a televised news conference after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Kremlin.

Putin said it was not in Russia’s interest to focus on the outcome of the 20-year-old US military operation in Afghanistan, he told a televised news conference after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Kremlin.

The two leaders noted that Afghanistan came to prominence during the outgoing German leader’s last working visit to Russia.

The Russian President also highlighted the importance of preventing “terrorists” from entering neighboring countries from Afghanistan “under the guise of refugees”.

Moscow has been cautiously optimistic about the new leadership in Kabul and is seeking contact with militants in an effort to avoid spreading instability in neighboring former Soviet states.

The Kremlin has in recent years reached out to the Taliban – which is banned in Russia as an ‘extremist’ group – and hosted its representatives several times in Moscow, most recently last month.

The two leaders noted that Afghanistan came to prominence during the outgoing German leader's last executive visit to Russia.

The two leaders noted that Afghanistan came to prominence during the outgoing German leader’s last executive visit to Russia.

Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul, hoisting their white and black flags after taking back control of the country

Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul, hoisting their white and black flags after taking back control of the country

Taliban fighters - clearly enjoying their newfound power - pose for a photographer in Kabul, Afghanistan

Taliban fighters – clearly enjoying their newfound power – pose for a photographer in Kabul, Afghanistan

The Taliban have been at pains to project a reformed image since US President Joe Biden marched in Kabul this weekend after leaving Afghanistan.

But there is mounting evidence that the radical Islamic regime is anything but an improvement from the autocratic jihadists of 20 years ago, who brutally tortured women and aligned themselves with al Qaeda terrorists.

Now those realities are being exposed, and the new rulers of Afghanistan have proved without a doubt that they are as bloodthirsty and tyrannical as their counterparts two decades ago.

The latest footage to emerge from within Afghanistan shows Taliban fighters attacking those carrying the Afghan national flag in at least a dozen incidents, mainly in the capital Kabul.

One video showed a heavily armed terrorist jumping off a pickup loaded with Taliban and pulling a gun at a man on a bicycle.

Fighter hastily takes the national emblem of the cyclist

A video shows a heavily armed terrorist jumping off a pickup loaded with Taliban and drawing his gun at a man on a bicycle, which is draped in an Afghan flag. Fighter hastily takes the national emblem of the cyclist

It comes after human rights group Amnesty International revealed that nine ethnic Hazara men were killed after Taliban fighters took control of the country’s Ghazni province last month, with eyewitnesses giving tragic details of the killings.

Six people were shot and three were killed, including a man who was strangled with his own scarf during the atrocities that took place between July 4-6 in Mundarakht village of Malistan district. And the muscles in his arm were cut off. group disclosed.

Local reports said that in another revenge killing, a regional police chief standing against the Taliban was killed in cold blood by a jihadist group.

Shocking video footage being circulated on the Internet shows a kneeling and blindfolded man gunning down the head of the Badghis province, General Haji Mullah Achakzai, near Herat.

General Haji Mulla Achakzai

General Haji Mulla Achakzai

Shocking video footage being circulated on the Internet clearly shows the head of Badgis province, General Haji Mullah Achakzai, kneeling and shooting a blindfolded man near Herat in a barrage of bullets.

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