WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump was not informed about the alleged intelligence that reportedly suggested that Russian intelligence had solicited killings of US troops by the Taliban* in Afghanistan, the White House said.
The Kremlin had not been made aware of the accusations, press secretary for Russian President Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday. “Nowadays, we tend to get amused at such publications”, he told reporters.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has refuted the reports, saying that these rumorus are being used in order to create obstacles to the US pullout from the country. The spokesman stressed that the Taliban’s activities were not related to any intelligence body or foreign country.
On Friday, The New York Times published an article where it cited unnamed government sources as saying that Trump had been presented with an intelligence report that claimed that Moscow could have paid a bounty to armed Islamic insurgents in Afghanistan to assassinate US soldiers. The outlet said Trump had so far failed to act on the report.
The agreement was intended to pave the way for the start of intra-Afghan talks and the eventual withdrawal of US troops from the country. Earlier this month, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said that the sides were closer to intra-Afghan talks than ever before and praised the Afghan government for releasing over 3,000 Taliban prisoners, and the Taliban for releasing over 500 government prisoners.
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