KABUL, rejecting the claim as baseless.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC last week, the Resolute Support Mission commander blamed Russia for its "destabilising activity".
Gen John Nicholson claimed Russian weapons were smuggled across the Tajikistan border to the Taliban. “We know that the Russians are involved.”
On Sunday, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kabul said such serious allegations should be backed up by irrefutable evidence.
“But US government representatives are constantly allowing themselves to publicly express idle gossip . . .
