Joe Biden’s senior national security adviser has acknowledged that billions of dollars in weapons, including advanced helicopters, drones and landmine tanks, have fallen into the hands of the Taliban and are out of Washington’s control.
Joe Biden’s senior national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, admitted at a news conference on Tuesday that the US military had lost track of billions of dollars in military equipment it had donated to the Afghan army.
Sullivan noted that most of the equipment must have fallen into the hands of the Taliban and that they did not appear to want to hand over the weapons to the United States.
Jake Sullivan added that the United States did not provide military equipment to the Taliban, but provided equipment to the Afghan army to defend itself.
Pictures released from Kunduz airport showed the Taliban seizing existing weapons after capturing the city. Some of this equipment is said to be among the most advanced military weapons.
Despite US claims of equipping the Afghan army with advanced weapons and providing the necessary training to the Afghan army, Taliban forces quickly evacuated one province after another after the US troops fled Afghanistan with conventional weapons. With the conquest and escape of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, they also took control of Kabul and the Afghan army completely disintegrated.
After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, hundreds of Afghans gathered around the runway in hopes of fleeing the country and boarding a US C-17 transport plane. They said that American forces flew the plane regardless of the safety of the people and despite the congestion on the runway.
Pictures posted on social media showed two people on the American plane crashing over Kabul.
The United States has said it will send some Afghan refugees to Uganda.
The American Wake also reported that when the plane landed at the US base in Qatar, the body of an Afghan was found in the compartment of the landing gear.
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, meanwhile, called the Pentagon spokesman’s remarks about the downing of several Afghan nationals from US planes at Kabul airport “shocking.”
“It’s really amazing,” Maria Zakharova told Russia 24 on Monday. I heard the words of John Kerby, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense, who said in response to a question about the crash of several Afghan nationals from American planes flying at Kabul airport: The United States can not confirm this information accurately. While this happened in a situation on the wings or wheels of American aircraft that are equipped with all methods and tools of monitoring and control.
