May 11, 2021 ☼ russia ☼ afghanistan ☼ bounties
Source: The New York Times - Link
Ultimately, newly declassified information shows, those analysts discovered a significant reason to believe the claim was accurate: Other members of the same Taliban-linked network had been working closely with operatives from a notorious unit of the G.R.U., the Russian military intelligence service, known for assassination operations.
This is scary, but probably not unexpected.