🇵🇱🇦🇫 Soldier of the special forces unit of Poland "GROM" in Kabul

🇩🇪🇺🇲🇦🇫⚡ U.S. and allies won't be able to evacuate all Afghans who qualify by August 31: German foreign minister via AFP

🇦🇫 The units of Ahmad Massoud are also reinforced with armored vehicles.

🇦🇫 Resistance forces claim to have driven the Taliban out of the Anjuman Pass. This mountainous region opens the way to Panjshir.

🇷🇺 Russian SSO during an exercise

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Major General Yevgeny Ilyin said that Zapad 2021 will involve around 200k servicemen; 80 helicopters and aircraft; 760 pieces of equipment, including 290 tanks as well as 240 artillery pieces, MLRS, and mortars; and up to 15 ships. The 200k figure is the 2nd largest for a Russian exercise behind Vostok 2018's 300k.

🇦🇫⚡ The Taliban has appointed Mohammad Nabi Omari the governor of Khost. Nabi, a Haqqani Network leader, is a former Guantanamo bay detainee with close ties to Al Qaeda. He was a “member of a joint al Qaeda/Taliban ACM cell in Khost and was involved in attacks against US and Coalition forces.”

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The Taliban will ban evacuation from Kabul after August 31, Taliban spokesman said.

❗️Taliban spox Zabihullah Mujahid says the group will no longer be allowing the Afghans to go to the airport.

He said crowd at the airport can go home, pledges to guarantee their security - Sputnik News.

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🇦🇫⚡ Our leader Sheikh Hibatullah Akhundzada will appear soon, God willing: Taliban spokesman

🇷🇺⚡🇺🇲 Russia does not want to see American military in Central Asia - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

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Taliban blocks road leading to Kabul international airport and only foreigners are allowed there - Al Jazeera TV

🇦🇫⚡ Over the past 24 hours, 37 US Air Force aircraft have evacuated about 12,700 people from Kabul.

Another 8,900 people were evacuated using 57 aircraft from other coalition partners.

From today, Afghan citizens have no access to the Kabul airport. Washington's reaction is still unknown.

🇦🇫🇺🇸 “We do not advocate that Afghans can leave” - Taliban

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that allowing the evacuation of foreign citizens after August 31 would "violate" the agreement reached between the US and the movement.

🇺🇲🇦🇫 DOD update In last 24hrs, 32 C-17s, 5 C-130s left Kabul. Including coalition, chartered, 21,600 people left in that span. One aircraft every 45 minutes. At this rate it's highly unlikely NATO will be able to evacuate it's every citizen before the 31st August deadline.

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Biden has decided to stick with August 31, deadline for withdrawal from Kabul.

❗️Russia "monitoring" Afghanistan situation, no plans for armed intervention - Putin

President Vladimir Putin has distanced Russia from military intervention in Afghanistan - but is wary of outside parties exacerbating the aggression.

"Russia is monitoring the situation but does not plan to interfere in an armed conflict there."

"Some countries may attempt to escalate the Afghan conflict in neighboring countries, and that would be a direct threat to Russia."

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❗️Taliban appoint former Guantanamo detainee mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir as acting defence minister - Al Jazeera

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🇦🇫⚡Taliban seized hundreds of MANPADS (man portable air defense systems)- Russian Defense Minister

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Algeria severs diplomatic ties with Morocco: foreign ministry