Friday, 31 July 2020_US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that the Trump administration has confronted top Russian diplomats and military officers over the allegations about suspected Russian bounties on coalition forces in Afghanistan, despite Donald Trump previously calling it a “Fake News tale.”
Last month, the New York Times reported that a Russian military intelligence unit had offered Taliban-linked militants bounties to carry out a series of attacks against coalition forces, including American troops, in Afghanistan.
The bombshell report, which was soon “confirmed” by some other newspapers, including the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, further claimed that US intelligence officials had also reached the conclusion about the clandestine payments and then briefed Trump in March.
The New York Times also reported that Trump had claimed that he was not briefed on any reports that Russians offered Taliban militants bounty.
The president, on the other hand, blamed the "fake news" for the allegations, calling the story a "hoax."
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