A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the consular section of Russia’s embassy in Kabul, killing two embassy staffers, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced Monday.
RIGA, Latvia — A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the consular section of Russia’s embassy in Kabul, killing two embassy staffers, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called it a “terrorist act,” saying that security at the embassy has been tightened and that the Taliban’s intelligence service was investigating. “Let’s hope that the organizers and perpetrators of this terrorist act will suffer their deserved punishment in the very near future,” he said.
Past attacks by the organization have been against mosques and Taliban members, but this is the first time that a diplomatic mission has been targeted. . However, the Kremlin has not moved to recognize the Taliban government, and the group is classified as a banned terrorist organization in Russia. Other nations that maintained diplomatic ties include China, Pakistan and Turkmenistan.Russia has hosted Taliban delegations since the group took Kabul, notably at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Russia’s equivalent of Davos, in June.
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