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Britain’s armed forces are now preparing to leave Kabul and will take small numbers of Afghan citizens with them on remaining flights this weekend, a defence ministry spokesperson said this evening. Britain’s ambassador to Afghanistan, Laurie Bristow, said in a statement filmed on the tarmac at Kabul’s main airport that it is “time to close this phase of the operation down”. But there are fears for the welfare of up to 1,100 Afghans who had worked with Britain and were eligible to leave the country would not make it through.
Britain’s ambassador said: “It’s time to close this phase of the operation down.
“But we haven’t forgotten the people who still need to leave, and we will do everything we can to help them
A British military transport plane carrying armed forces members landed at an airbase in southern England on Saturday.
The wind-down of the evacuation comes ahead of the 31st August deadline agreed between US forces and the Taliban.
On Friday, British defence minister Ben Wallace said that the country was entering the final hours of its evacuation and would process only people who were already inside Kabul airport.
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