Shoigu Praised The Taliban.

Russia is ready to assist the Taliban through its security agencies.

Former Russian Defense Minister and Secretary of the Security Council Sergey Shoigu published a column in Rossiyskaya Gazeta titled "Afghanistan: the thorny path to stability." In it, Shoigu praises the Taliban, who Russian authorities only removed from the terrorist list in April 2025, writes The Moscow Times.

Shoigu believes the Taliban are fighting extremists on their territory. "Kabul regularly eliminates ISIS militants. Of course, if it were not for the punitive sanctions imposed by Western countries against the Taliban, this fight would be more effective," he wrote. According to Shoigu, Afghanistan still has a lot of work to do to stabilize the situation in the country, and Russia is ready to assist the Taliban through its security agencies. "There are about twenty international terrorist organizations with a total of more than 23,000 militants in Afghanistan, posing a serious threat to the region and the world," he wrote.

Shoigu put the responsibility for the difficulties in rebuilding Afghanistan on Western states, recalling that $9 billion of the Taliban government's state reserves remain frozen, although they could be used to solve the country's problems. Shoigu also said the Americans had failed in the Afghan campaign. "The disorganized withdrawal of troops, which caused civilian casualties, has become a symbol of the failure of the Joe Biden administration and the chaos in US foreign policy under the Democrats," he wrote. To back up his words, Shoigu quoted current U.S. President Donald Trump as calling the withdrawal from Afghanistan "the most shameful day in U.S. history."

Shoigu also blamed the U.S. for the increase in drug production in Afghanistan: "Maximum opiate production came during the second term of Barack Obama's presidency and by 2017 reached 9,000 tons - 43 times more than before the Americans came to Afghanistan." Shoigu noted the Taliban's fight against drug production. According to him, "already in 2023, the area under opium poppy cultivation, which was previously about 232,000 hectares, has been reduced by 95%," and "today 20 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces are considered free of drug plantations."

In June, Russia became the first country in the world to officially recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, a state entity ruled by the Taliban. Russia raised the status of diplomatic relations with Kabul, and an Afghan ambassador appeared in Russia.

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