{"id":22536,"date":"2026-09-23T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/russia-concern-civilian-casualties-pakistani-airstrikes-eastern-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:30:17","slug":"russia-concern-civilian-casualties-pakistani-airstrikes-eastern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/russia-concern-civilian-casualties-pakistani-airstrikes-eastern-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Expresses Concern Over Civilian Casualties in Pakistani Strikes on Eastern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s embassy in Kabul has expressed concern over civilian casualties following Pakistani airstrikes on parts of eastern Afghanistan, and has called on the parties involved to avoid further escalation.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted on X on Wednesday, October 1, the embassy offered condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to those injured. The Russian embassy also said disputes should be resolved through dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan targeted areas in the provinces of Paktika and Kunar with airstrikes yesterday. According to published information, the attacks killed and wounded a number of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban administration, condemned the attack and described it as a repetition of war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Paktika and Kunar are eastern Afghan provinces bordering Pakistan, and tensions and border incidents have repeatedly been reported in these areas in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia raises concern over civilian casualties after Pakistani airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan and calls for dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}