Russian servicemen of the CSTO peacekeeping force contingent MINSK, January 15 All CSTO peacekeepers are planned to be returned from Kazakhstan to the points of permanent deployment until January 19, inclusive, said CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas. «The entire contingent of peacekeeping forces will be withdrawn from the territory of Kazakhstan … Almost within a week, all units, all personnel will be withdrawn to points of permanent deployment. And, if the weather does not intervene, then according to the plan of the Russian Ministry of Defense, by the 19th inclusive, it is planned to return everyone to the points of permanent deployment,» Zas said in an interview with the Belarus 1 TV channel shown on Saturday. Zas noted that military units from the CSTO peacekeeping contingent were sent to Kazakhstan . «A peacekeeping potential has been created in the CSTO. Not all of them were involved, we still had a reserve. Some of these peacekeeping units took part in this peacekeeping operation,» he explained. According to the Secretary General, the CSTO peacekeepers in Kazakhstan performed the tasks of guarding and defending strategically important state facilities and facilities of the life support system. in Kazakhstan there was a turning point in the situation
