Minister Frost Boris Johnson Has said that the UK is leaving Afghanistan It is “the culmination of a mission that we have never seen in our lives.”
The last British troops and diplomats from acceptance On Saturday, the 20-year British involvement in Afghanistan and the two-week rescue operation of British nationals and Afghan allies are coming to an end.
Ambassador Sir Laurie Bristow (Sir Laurie Bristow) has been at the airport to deal with people fleeing the country until the last minute. He was one of the people who landed on the British Royal Air Force’s Britz Norton base in Oxfordshire on Sunday morning.
It ended Operation Pitting, which is believed to be the largest evacuation mission since World War II.
In a video uploaded to Twitter on Sunday morning, Mr. Johnson praised more than 1,000 military personnel, diplomats and officials involved in the operation in Afghanistan.
He said: “The British army and officials worked day and night under tragic conditions until the deadline was merciless.
“They have exhausted all their patience and care, and think they have the power to help those whose lives are in danger.
“They witnessed brutal terrorist attacks on the people they were trying to comfort and our American friends.
“They didn’t back down. They stayed calm. They continued to work.
“Thanks to their tremendous efforts, this country has now processed, inspected, reviewed and airlifted more than 15,000 people to safety in less than two weeks.”
Soon after, Sir Lowry arrived on the last flight carrying British military and civilian personnel back from Afghanistan.
On Sunday morning, a Voyager plane landed at RAF Britz Norton Airport in Oxfordshire with approximately 250 people on board, including members of the 16th Air Assault Brigade stationed at Kabul Airport.
The plane took off from Al Minhad Airport in the United Arab Emirates near Dubai, where the British flight evacuating from Afghanistan landed first.
Expect more flights with crews later on Sunday.
The government says that 15,000 people have been evacuated since the outbreak Taliban Captured Kabul, of which 5,000 U.K Nationals and their families.
More than 8,000 Afghans who have acted as translators or other roles to help the British, or Afghans who are otherwise vulnerable to the regime’s persecution, were able to flee to safety with their families.
But Lieutenant General Ben Kee, the joint operations minister who directed Operation Pitin, admitted that there is a sense of “grief” that not everyone can be saved.
Speaking at RAF Britz Norton on Sunday morning, he said: “Although we acknowledge and prove all the achievements of the coalition forces, especially the British contingent, in the past two weeks, we finally know that there are some very tragic The story, people desperately wanted to leave, no matter how hard we tried, we failed to evacuate.”
He added: “Extraordinary efforts have been made in the past two weeks. And I think we always knew we were going to fail somewhere.
“So this is not a time to celebrate for us at all, but a time to commemorate the tremendous efforts made by the international community to evacuate as many people as possible within the time available.”
Inexplicably, why did the government fall asleep under surveillance
But Lord Richard Dennett, the former commander-in-chief of the British Army, said that if the government hadn’t been “standby”, it could have done more.
In an interview with The Times Radio, he said: “The government seems to have fallen asleep while on duty. This is unfathomable.
“I think the Afghan issue is of secondary importance. Maybe it is starting to come forward. But suddenly, when the Taliban took over the country in the way they did precipitation, it fell directly from the cookware to the kitchen floor and we … experienced this chaotic extraction.
“We should have done better, we could have done better. It is absolutely necessary for us to find out why the government did not start faster.”
Mr. Johnson said to the family and relatives of the British army who “gave everything”: “Your sufferings and hardships are not in vain.”
He added: “It is no accident that Afghanistan has not launched terrorist attacks on Britain or any other Western countries in the past 20 years.”
We lack a strategy, a strategy for governing the country, and a lack of patience to see through. The way we leave is a humiliation and a testament to our weak will.
But Tobias Elwood, a Conservative MP and veteran, said that Britain had “almost nothing to show” in Afghanistan for 20 years.
The Chairman of the Special Committee on Defense of the House of Commons told LBC: “Our armed forces have been so brave, but their political masters have let them down.
“We lack strategy, governance, and patience to see through. The way we leave is a shame, a confirmation of our weak will, and our opponents will not hesitate to use it.”
Mr. Elwood added: “Unfortunately, we have made the situation worse because we have left the place where terrorist organizations can now easily carry out their work.”
