The Kommersant newspaper reported;
Russia proposes US use of Central Asian military bases.
The Russian president met with his American counterpart last month; He suggested that they could use Russian bases in Central Asia for intelligence cooperation on Afghanistan.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden in the Swiss capital Geneva in June, offered to use Russian military bases in Asia,” the Kommersant newspaper reported. Miyaneh has been collecting information from Afghanistan.
“Despite the not-so-warm relations between Washington and Moscow, Putin has made an exceptional offer to Biden that the United States and Russia should work together on Afghanistan through the ‘practical use’ of Russian bases in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan,” the Kommersant newspaper reported. Be coordinated.
Kommersant also wrote that the cooperation may have included the exchange of information obtained by drones, but no clear response was given by the US side in this regard. The Kremlin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Russia’s offer to cooperate with the United States on Afghanistan and allow US intelligence to use Moscow’s military bases in Central Asia came as the Biden administration reportedly temporarily transferred thousands of Afghan troops working with US troops. And now facing threats from the Taliban, it has entered into negotiations with Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The possibility of US troops being deployed in Central Asian countries, specifically Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, has been raised several times by some Pentagon-linked circles after the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, although it has not yet been officially announced. This has not been confirmed or denied by Washington officials.
“We are closely monitoring what is happening in Afghanistan,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier. The situation there is rapidly deteriorating in the face of the hasty withdrawal of US and NATO troops from the country.
