Moscow: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has escaped from a torn country on a helicopter filled with money but had to leave cash because it could not be squeezed into the helicopter, according to the Russian official media report on Monday.
Taliban rebels swept Kabul on Sunday after the collapse of the sudden and unprecedented Ghani government, encouraged the president to join fellow citizens and foreigners to leave the country.
Quoting the Russian Embassy in Kabul, the official Russian news agency TASS reported that the 72-year-old President fled Afghanistan on a helicopter packed with money.
“As for the reason the collapse of the regime, they were marked by how Ghani escaped from the country.
Four cars were packed with money, and they tried to cram cash into a helicopter.
Not all cash was squeezed, and some of the money was left lying on the airport, “The mission employee said as quoted by the report.
Although Tasses did not call the mission employee, quoted a spokesman for Russian diplomatic missions Nikita Ishenko, Russian wire service sputnik reported that Ghani was escorted by a car filled with cash when he escaped from Kabul.
“They tried to put a part of the money into a helicopter, but everything was not suitable.
And some money left on the runway,” Ishenko said.
In his first comment after he left Afghanistan, Ghani at the Facebook post on Sunday said he was faced with “difficult choices” between “armed Taliban” who wanted to enter the Presidential Palace or “left the dear country I listened to my life to protect the last 20 years”.
“If there is still countless compaters of Martyred and they will face the destruction and destruction of Kabul City, the results will be a big human disaster in the six million cities.
The Taliban has made it to move me, they are here to attack all.
Kabul and Kabul people.
To avoid bloody flooding, I think it’s the best to get out, “he said.
“The Taliban has won the judgment of swords and weapons and now they are responsible for protecting the honor, wealth, and self-esteem of the countrymen.
Don’t they win the legitimacy of the liver? Never in history have the dry power given to the legitimacy to anyone and win T giving them, “Ghani, reportedly taking refuge in Tajikistan neighbors, said.
Academic and economist, Ghani is the 14th President of Afghanistan.
He was first elected on September 20, 2014 and was re-elected in the Presidential Election September 28, 2019.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, but after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the brutal regime of militant groups ended when they were expelled from strength by forces US leader in 2001.