Russian aircraft repatriate peacekeepers from Kazakhstan

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Russian aircraft repatriate peacekeepers from Kazakhstan

Moscow - January 18 ANI Sputnik Forty Russian aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces have brought home Russian peacekeepers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization's forces from Kazakhstan, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Forty aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces transported Russian peacekeepers from the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces from the Republic of Kazakhstan to military airfields in the Moscow and Ulyanovsk regions over the past day, the ministry said.

In the early days of 2022, mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the early days of the country - residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau opposed a twofold increase in prices for liquefied gas. Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Almaty, the republic's largest city: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions and took weapons of mass destruction. In response to the situation, the authorities declared a state of emergency across the country and launched a counter-terrorism operation on January 19th.

The president of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev resigned from the country's Security Council in the morning of January 5. At the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, Tokayev described the situation in Kazakhstan as one undermined the integrity of the state, and said he had asked the Collective Security Treaty Organization CSTO for help in overcoming the terrorist threat.