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KABUL: General Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov crossed the Oxus River as the last Soviet troop to leave Afghanistan on February 14, 1989 and to end a nine-year of military invasion of Afghanistan.
13,000 of 100,000 Soviet soldiers serving in the Afghan war were killed and 35,000 others wounded and maimed. The war also took hundreds of thousands victims from Afghans, while millions fled the country.
This was the intensive part of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States with their allies.
Although the Soviet Union ended invasion of Afghanistan, but the war continues till now, with the Soviet s old rival the US having troops on the ground since a 2001 invasion in the pretext of war on terror that pushed the Taliban out.