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Russia in contact he will do everything he can with Western countries to ensure security in Afghanistan, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with representatives of the United Russia party. “We do not want militants to appear under the guise of refugees,” the Russian leader stressed.
Putin added that the situation in Afghanistan affects security in Russia. Moscow will not allow militants from this country to enter the Russian Federation under the guise of refugees.
“These horrors, which are now in Afghanistan, have not been so long ago and we do not want to return, and such elements are not needed for us,” the president said. Putin has opposed the West's idea of placing refugees from Afghanistan in Central Asia until they get visas to the United States and European countries. “This means that we can send visas to these countries without neighbors, but we do not want to take them without visas,” Putin said. He emphasized that this was a “humiliating” approach.