An aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) delivered 25 Russians from Alma-Ata to Moscow. This was reported on Saturday by the RF Ministry of Defense.
It is noted that the evacuated Russians were in Kazakhstan on a tourist visa. All tourists arrived in Alma-Ata for the New Year holidays at the ski resort. “But as a result of the aggravation of the situation in the country and the closure of the international airport, Russian tourists remained closed in one of the city’s hotels. While at the hotel, they turned to the leadership of the Russian contingent of the peacekeeping forces with a request to return them to Russia. At present, the entire group of Russian tourists was delivered from Alma-Ata to Moscow by military transport aircraft, “the military department concluded.
Let us remind you that riots broke out in a number of settlements of Kazakhstan on January 2 this year. The reason was the increase in prices for liquefied gas. Thousands of people have suffered, there are dead. President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev appealed to the CSTO for help. On January 6, the CSTO Collective Security Council made a decision to transfer the peacekeeping contingent to Kazakhstan. Its goal is to stabilize and normalize the situation in the republic.
The CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces include units of the Armed Forces of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The main tasks of the sent peacekeepers are the protection of important state and military facilities, as well as assistance to the law enforcement forces of Kazakhstan in stabilizing the situation and returning the state to the legal field.
“The air group of more than 70 Il-76 and 5 An-124 planes created by the Russian Ministry of Defense transfers units of the Russian contingent of the CSTO peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan around the clock,” the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
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