Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: the economic situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating, the country has a whole chain of problems the economic situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. This is reported by RIA Novosti.
According to Kabulov, the situation in the country is affected by both the freezing of financial assets by Washington and the lack of humanitarian aid. “We hear beautiful declarations about the readiness to throw in serious money, but the disconnection of Afghan banks from the SWIFT system makes it impossible to somehow deliver this money to those in need in Afghanistan,” he said on the air of the Russia 24 channel.
Kabulov added that a whole chain of problems is now being observed in the country. He said that fuel in Afghanistan has always been in short supply, and the insolvent part of the population now has no money even for firewood – they often burn plastic bottles to keep warm.
“It comes to the point that there is already a lot, Unfortunately, there are cases when we read reports that some Afghan families are forced to sell their children, their daughters in order to somehow survive. This is one of the consequences, “he stressed.
Earlier, the planes of the Russian Defense Ministry with the Russians and citizens of Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine and Afghanistan evacuated from Afghanistan landed at the Chkalovsky airfield in the Moscow region. The authorities said they were evacuating citizens on behalf of President Vladimir Putin.