A senior Russian security official questioned Washington’s commitment to Ukraine after its abrupt exit from Afghanistan,

predicting the US would one day abandon its Ukrainian allies in the same way. “Was the ousted pro-American regime in Kabul saved by the fact that Afghanistan had the status of a principal U.S. ally outside NATO?” Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, asked in an Izvestia interview. “A similar situation awaits supporters of the American choice in Ukraine.”