Afghanistan. The Fall of Gray Hercules
On Friday night, a US Air Force C-130 Hercules military transport plane crashed near the Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan. According to updated data, 14 people died as a result of the disaster - 6 American soldiers, 5 UN mission employees and 3 local residents, on whose heads an American plane crashed.
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The Taliban movement, quite in the spirit of the times, took responsibility for the incident via Twitter, where their representative Mujahid Zabiullah said that the death of the plane was the result of sabotage. However, US Air Force public affairs officer Major Tony Wickman told AFP that although the investigation into the cause of the plane's crash is still underway, "we can say with a high degree of confidence that the crash was not related to an enemy attack."
It is difficult to resist sarcasm about the fact that while on the Internet the Ukrainian and liberal public encourage each other with fake reports about the losses of Russian aviation in Syria and scare each other with the “new Afghanistan,” the real losses of aviation in real Afghanistan continue to be borne by the United States.
Meanwhile, Afghan authorities report that they are completing the clearing of residential areas of the city of Kunduz, which was recently captured by the Taliban after a surprise attack. Kunduz is located in the north of the country, close to the border with Tajikistan, and its capture was the group's biggest success since the US-led international invasion of the country.
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