Moscow-Sana
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ridiculed the US administration's statements about its intention to avenge the killing of US soldiers in bombings targeting Kabul airport last August.
"We have heard statements from Washington that they will avenge what happened around Kabul airport, and it must be remembered that the United States was in Afghanistan with a retaliatory mission that it carried out for 20 years, and now it wants to avenge the failure of its previous retaliatory mission," Zakharova was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying.
The US Department of Defense had announced the killing of 13 US soldiers, in addition to more than 90 Afghans, in bombings claimed by the terrorist organization (ISIS) targeting the vicinity of Kabul Airport at the end of last August.
On the other hand, Zakharova confirmed that dozens of employees of foreign embassies in Russia financed and sponsored Alexei Navalny's exhibition projects.
“The scheme was as follows, foreign embassies in Russia hired Russian citizens to work and paid them money and then transferred the money to the relevant structures and these embassies in the diplomatic missions of the United States, Germany, Canada, France, Spain and other NATO countries,” Zakharova said.
The Committee for the Protection of National Interests in Russia had published an investigation on its website in which it indicated that Navalny's projects receive financial support from employees of foreign embassies.