Taliban say they are releasing more than 70 Afghan security forces prisoners

Representatives of the radical Taliban movement (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) announced the release of more than 70 prisoners of Afghan security forces, according to Tolo News on May 30. It is specified that the Taliban released 73 people who were held captive in the provinces of Balh, Kunduz, Logar, Paktia, Khost and Paktika. Taking these people into account, the Taliban (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) claims to have released 420 prisoners. As reported, earlier the President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani ordered the release of almost two thousand members of the Taliban movement (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation). We remind that earlier the Taliban movement (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) and the authorities in Kabul announced a three-day ceasefire in Afghanistan on the occasion of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr, also known as Uraza Bayram. * "Taliban organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation