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A Russian army intelligence unit has presented bonds to militants in Afghanistan to kill U.S. infantry soldiers and other NATO troop stations there, according to the New York Times, and the White House has been debating for months how it responds.
Citing U.S. intelligence officials, the Times reports that last year, Russia presented and paid coins to Taliban militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan, noting that 20 U.S. infantrymen were killed in Afghanistan in 2019, it is not transparent which were applicable with the reward.
According to reports, at an assembly beyond March, the White House repudiated a response, adding a request to Russia to end the practice and imposition of new sanctions, however, no action was taken, and the discussions were recently ended, adding information to the UK’s intelligence.
Officials cited through the Times did not specify the duration of the program in the Russian government, but knew it as an operation of the 29155 Russian army intelligence unit, which has conducted operations to destabilize the West and is connected to the murderous country of Sergei Skripal in 2018, a former Russian intelligence officer who defected to Britain.
President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmicheck and Peskov, told the Times that the executive was not very familiar with the accusation and that “if anyone does, respond.”
The action coincides with Russia’s continued disruption on U.S. social networking sites, a U.S.-Taliban peace agreement no later than February that aims to withdraw the trooplay station from the region within 1 month if the parameters are met.
The report also comes at a precarious time for Trump, as his silent reaction to Russian election interference overshadows his 2020 campaign, adding questionable comments made at a Helsinki summit in 2018 where he challenged the findings of his own intelligence community on election interference while flanked through Putin.
A February assembly between House lawmakers and Joseph Maguire, the former acting director of national intelligence, on Russia’s intention to support Trump in the 2020 election infuriated the president and led him to appoint Richard Grenell.
General John Nicholson, a former commander-in-chief of the army in Afghanistan, accused the Russians of supplying arms to the Taliban and said in 2018: “Obviously, they are acting to undermine our interests.” The Russian embassy in Kabul responded by calling it “actually unfounded.”
Criticism has been directed at Trump, his presidency, for his friendly attitude towards Russia. One notable one is his complaint about the bipartisan sanctions passed by Congress, which he enacted in August 2017. The law sets limits on Trump’s ability to ease sanctions installed through President Barack Obama in reaction to the annexation of Crimea and election interference in 2016. In June, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to Trump’s proposal to reinstate Russia to G7 meetings by saying, “Russia was excluded from the G7 after invading Crimea several years ago, and its continued loss of respect and demonstration of foreign regulations and criteria are The country stays out of the G7, and it’s going to stick.” On Thursday, during a speech at a Wisconsin shipyard, Trump said that “the most difficult country to deal with directly “was not China, Russia or North Korea, but ” democrats in the United States.” They’re a lot less moderate and, in fact, they’re a little crazy.”
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