Flight from Vnukovo Airport in Moscow landed at Hamid Karzaya airport in Kabul earlier on August 18. This is evidenced by the data on the FlightRadar24 website, Sputnik Afghanistan draws attention to the relevant information.
According to Sputnik, more than 30 thousand people watched the flight in real time. There is no information about the plane on Vnukovo website. In addition, neither Russian nor Afghan media reported that a kind of flight is being prepared from Russia to Afghanistan.
On August 17, representatives of the “Taliban” radical movement (prohibited in the Russian Federation) said that temporarily stop all departures from Kabul Airport. To dispersed the crowd of Afghans, counting on evacuation from the country, members of the terrorist movement opened a preventive fire into the air. Shots still audible near the airport. Also, according to the channel, a fight continues next to the airfield.
Hundreds of Afghans headed to the country’s capital international airport after the Taliban has seized power. Many want to escape from the country, since the reprisals fear. On the video from the event of events, it can be seen how people break into the building of the airfield and for dozens of seconds fill it, after which the crush is formed.