A section of the Afghan-Uzbek border in the vicinity of the Afghan port of Hairatan, neighboring Uzbekistan's Termez city, is controlled by Afghan authorities, not the Taliban movement (banned in Russia as a terrorist group), an Uzbek border officer on duty at the Termez checkpoint told Sputnik on Friday

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived on Tuesday in Tajikistan on a working visit during which he will take part in the annual meeting of defense ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Russian defense ministry said