CNN Reporting the bounty offered to the Taliban resulted in deaths of US troops.

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32. Putin did the SAME thing with British troops.

British Intel said that the same people who paid for it paid for the poisoning of the Skripals.

"Russia offered Taliban-linked fighters bounties to attack British troops - as senior Tory MP seeks answers
The group responsible for the payments is the same Russian intelligence outfit behind the Skripal poisonings, Sky News is told."

https://news.sky.com/story/russia-paid-taliban-fighters-to-attack-british-troops-in-afghanistan-12016425

"On 4 March 2018, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the UK's intelligence services, and his daughter Yulia Skripal were poisoned in the city of Salisbury, England with a Novichok nerve agent, according to UK sources."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal