Six people were killed in a terrorist attack on a Russian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 5, including two Russian embassy employees and four Afghan citizens.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield expressed her condolences to the families of the victims via social media.
“We join the Security Council in condemning the heinous attack on the Russian embassy in Kabul and the July 30 attack on the @UN compound in Herat,” Thomas-Greenfield said in a tweet this week. “We extend our condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy and full recovery to the injured.”
The UN Security Council “condemned in the strongest of terms the heinous terrorist attack,” a press statement from the United States Mission to the United Nations said this week. The attack was claimed by Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), an organization affiliated with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. The statement confirmed the deaths of at least six people and several more who were injured.
The terrorist attack was carried out by a suicide bomber at the entrance of the embassy, a Reuters report said.
Russia is one of the few remaining countries to maintain and operate an embassy in Kabul since the Taliban takeover over a year ago, Reuters said. While Moscow does not officially recognize the Taliban's government, there is an agreement to supply Afghanistan with gasoline and other commodities.
Afghanistan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi commented that the country would never let actions of enemies have a negative impact on its close relationship with Russia, Reuters said.
