The defense ministry of Uzbekistan confirmed that an Afghan military jet had crashed in the Central Asian country. An inquiry is now underway “Bakhrom Zulfikarov, a ministry official, confirmed Uzbek media reports of an accident late Sunday in Uzbekistan‘s Surkhondaryo region, which borders Afghanistan.
Central Asia has been watching the collapse of Afghanistan’s government with concern. The nation is bordered by three former Soviet republics: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Uzbekistan said on Sunday that 84 Afghan troops had been captured while crossing the border and that it was in talks with the Afghans over their release.
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The Defense Ministry of Uzbekistan announced that an Afghan warplane was prevented from crossing the country’s border. On Sunday, a bodyguard for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told Al Jazeera that the president had departed Afghanistan and landed in Uzbekistan’s capital with his wife.
An aircraft with Afghan Air Force markings crashed in the Surkhadarya Region’s Sherabad area on Sunday evening. The plane’s debris and at least one injured passenger were captured on camera and published on the Internet. Uzbekistan’s Defense Ministry later confirmed the jet crash’s exact location.
On April 14, US President Joe Biden said that the mission in Afghanistan, which had become the most prolonged foreign military engagement in US history, would be scaled back. In light of this, the country’s security situation has deteriorated dramatically. A violent Islamist organization, the Taliban took Kabul’s capital and nearly all of Afghanistan’s territory.
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