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2021-08-31 Afghanistan
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White flag over the Green Zone: the embassy quarter in Kabul is empty
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Direct translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Aleksandr Kots
[KP] The Green Zone is the safest area in Afghanistan. Here are the diplomatic missions of Western states, government buildings, the presidential palace.
The quarter is surrounded by tall fences, ornate checkpoints with powerful barriers. Yesterday, everything was in full swing here - thousands of Afghans, who worked in the embassies of NATO countries, pounded the doorstep in the hope of leaving the country. In words, the Taliban, of course, declare a general amnesty, but who knows what will hit them in the head when no one can protect these people.
It's completely empty here today. There is a huge queue just to the bank office - financial institutions have finally begun to open. But in order not to bring down the frail economy with frozen accounts, the limit on cash withdrawals is set - up to $200 per week.
We brake at the main entrance to the "Green Zone." A lonely woman in a burqa knocks on the window. In her hands are laminated documents, apparently indicating that she worked for one of the Western diplomatic missions. So, she has the right to evacuate. I just spread my hands. A joint post is 50 meters away. Next to the American Humvee and the French armored car are two road police officers and a dozen Taliban. Law enforcement officers returned to service, only removing the republican flag of Afghanistan from their chevrons. A white Taliban flag now flies over the Green Zone.
The militants, as owners, are leading us along a concrete security corridor -- 10 meters wide and 5 meters high. Embassy of Saudi Arabia, France, and behind it are government buildings and the presidential palace. This corridor was once the target of their terrorist attacks. Today they claim that they are guarding Western diplomatic missions awaiting the return of diplomats.
“We are ready to ensure their safety and continue cooperation in all areas,” the bearded man near the French embassy assures me. Our leadership says that nothing threatens foreign diplomats in our country. It is necessary that they take an example from the Russian embassy, from the Russians who have remained and continue to work normally.
At the entrance of the British Embassy, a picture of the flight is read. There are containers with keys on the counter, some of them are lying on the floor. In front of the entrance there are open cells, where, apparently, mobile phones were handed over. There are badges on the floor with the names of Afghans who worked for the British.
"We do not pursue them. The gardeners still come to do their work, the bosses told us not to touch any of them," the Taliban fighter assures me.
"And if the bosses say that they are collaborators and deserve punishment," I asked.
The Talib shrugged indifferently, patting the machine gun with his hand.
Not that America opened itself up in Kabul, showing the world something unexpected. It is well known about the cynicism of her foreign policy and readiness for the sake of her interests to walk on other people's bones. But the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will go down in history. No sooner had the dust settled from the August 26 terrorist attack at the capital's airport, which killed 13 American Marines and one and a half hundred unarmed civilians, as a new explosion shook Kabul.
Doubts exist as to how all 150 civilians died.
Aleksandr Kots is a Russian military journalist. 
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