Picture shows damaged APCs and helmets left by Soviet troops who were fighting in Afghanistan, near the town of Termez in Uzbekistan, some 30km from the Afghan-Soviet border, in this March 1989 file photo. Moscow's forces pulled out of the country in 1989 after a decade of war in which tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers and many more Afghans died. A senior Russian general ruled out on September 19 Moscow taking part in any military action in Afghanistan in the aftermath of attacks on the USA.— REUTERS