Fragment of military ammunition of a serviceman of the Russian Federation of the contingent of the CSTO peacekeeping forcesMOSCOW, January 17All 14 aircraft with Russian peacekeepers from the CSTO forces scheduled for January 17 arrived from Kazakhstan in the Moscow region, the RF Ministry of Defense reports. to the Chkalovsky airfield from Kazakhstan,” the message says. will deliver the personnel and equipment of the Airborne Forces units, which performed tasks as part of the CSTO collective peacekeeping forces, to the Vostochny airfield in the Ulyanovsk region. It is specified that the return of all peacekeepers to their permanent deployment points is planned to be completed before January 19. mass protests. In the first days of the new year, residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed the doubling of prices for liquefied gas. Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: attacks on state institutions, looting, seizures of weapons began there. In response, the authorities declared a state of emergency and launched a counter-terrorist operation. According to the UN, during the protests in Kazakhstan, about 1,000 people were injured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, 17 Kazakh security officials were killed, more than 1.3 thousand were injured. On January 5, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the Security Council. At its first meeting, under his leadership, Tokayev described the situation as undermining the integrity of the state and said that he had turned to the CSTO for help. The CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan to normalize the situation in the country. On January 7, Tokayev announced that terrorists, including those from abroad, were continuing to resist, and promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. In addition, the president noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard. On January 13, the successful completion of the CSTO mission in Kazakhstan was announced.
