UN, 29 August – RIA Novosti. In an interview with RIA Novosti, UN Humanitarian Aid Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov said that the people of Afghanistan have run out of patience and internal resources to withstand shocks.

Earlier, he described the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan as a disaster.

“The country is very poor. The situation is getting worse as the population of this country is depleting resources of patience,” Alakbarov said. said.

He pointed out that the conflicts in Afghanistan have been going on for many years.

“People don’t have savings in banks. The banking situation is pretty critical. There have been two consecutive years of drought in the last four years. In terms of food, all these mechanisms related to livestock have been exhausted,” he said.

According to him, 19 million Afghans continue to be malnourished, and 6.6 million are “on the verge of starvation.”

In this case, according to Alakbarov, the country’s population has no reserves, “the sources of internal resistance to shocks and uprisings have been exhausted.” Therefore, the UN noted that the situation is very difficult.

In early August 2021, the Taliban* intensified their attacks against Afghan government forces, and on August 15, the Taliban entered Kabul. The next day they announced the end of the war.

In the last two weeks of August, Western nationals and Afghans collaborating with them were evacuated from the Kabul airport, which is under the protection of the US army. On the night of August 31, the US military left the Kabul airport, ending nearly 20 years of US military presence in Afghanistan.

* The movement is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.

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