Ambassador Zhirnov: Russia had information in advance that the Taliban would not meet resistance 
that representatives of the radical Taliban movement ( banned in Russia as a terrorist organization ) will not meet with resistance when trying to take the Afghan capital Kabul in August this year. This was stated by the Russian ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov, reports TASS.
According to him, Russia knew about a number of details of the Taliban's impending seizure of power in the country. In particular, it was known that the Afghan military would not support the regime of President Ashraf Ghani, because he did not pay them.
“And most importantly, we had information from various sources, including the Taliban camp, that the entrance It will be peaceful for the Taliban to Kabul, that there will be no bloodshed and there will be no threats to the Russian diplomatic mission, like all other diplomatic missions, ”Zhirnov said.
In October, The Wall Street Journal reported citing reports from four leading intelligence US agencies that Washington also knew in advance about the imminent fall of Kabul and the inevitable seizure of Afghanistan by the Taliban. At the same time, experts believed that the Taliban would gradually recapture the country's territory from government forces, and it would take them several months to several years to seize power.
President Ghani's regime fell even before the official withdrawal of the US army from the territory was announced country. On August 15, Kabul surrendered to the Taliban without a fight, and Ghani left Afghanistan. This happened against the background of the withdrawal of the American military from the country.