The Afghan Foreign Ministry expressed its strong condemnation of the incident and expressed its condolences to the Russian government, its people and the families of the victims, pointing out that the explosion at the Russian embassy in Kabul killed two of its employees and injured several others. auditors.

The Afghan Foreign Ministry indicated that “our security services have launched a comprehensive investigation into the incident and will take more serious steps to ensure the security of the Russian embassy.”

For its part, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that “two employees of the Russian embassy in Kabul were killed this morning in an explosion at its gates”, explaining that “an unknown armed person set off an explosive device near our embassy in Kabul, killing two employees of our mission “.

And the Novosti Agency, citing a diplomatic source, reported that “an explosion occurred this morning near the Russian embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, and so far there is no information about its nature and whether it led to human casualties.” According to the source, “the security situation in the city is difficult.” That, and so far there have been no reports of injuries among embassy staff.