“The protection and defense of the military airfield of Kazakhstan” has been entrusted to the Belarusian peacekeeping contingent, said Sergey Andreev, deputy commander of the special operations forces of the republic’s Armed Forces, on the air of the national TV channel.
The commander said that “in accordance with the decision taken, the peacekeeping contingent from Belarus arrived in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan by the transport of the Military Space Forces of the Russian Federation. The redeployment took place as usual. by destination “.
Local news channels report that a trained company from the 103rd Vitebsk airborne brigade of special operations forces has been sent to Kazakhstan from the Republic of Belarus.
Commenting on the events in Kazakhstan last Friday, Alexander Lukashenko, in particular, reminded that the two countries are linked by the Collective Security Treaty. “We have relevant paramilitary units that were in reserve for several years, trained. These are peacekeeping forces that have been deployed to Alma-Ata together with our fraternal Russia,” the Belarusian leader said.
Assessing the current events, the Belarusian leader referred to his personal experience, explaining that “as soon as we admit a crack, water will rush there. A holy place is never empty. This is what happened in Kazakhstan. Foreign bandits took advantage of this and rushed, first of all , to the prosperous south. ” This, he is convinced, “was an attempt at foreign intervention.”
By the way, the president explained, the goal was to cut off the south of Kazakhstan – the homeland of the current head of state. After all, “Tokayev was born in Alma-Ata,” he clarified, adding that now everything there is already on the decline. “Because sending our contingent there together with Russia, other CSTO states will also join, it has a sobering effect on those who decided to warm their hands there.”
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