The second aircraft of the military transport aviation of the Aerospace Forces delivered 84 Russians from Alma-Ata to Moscow, as reported on Monday, January 10, at the RF Ministry of Defense.
According to the military department, the delivered Russian citizens arrived in Alma-Ata on New Year’s holidays, on tourist trips or because of a business trip. During the aggravation of the situation, the Russians were in the hotels of the city and with their relatives. They appealed to the leadership of the Russian contingent of the peacekeeping forces with a request to deliver them back to Russia.
Earlier that day, a military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered 146 Russians from the Alma-Ata airfield to the Russian capital. Also, several foreign diplomats with their families were taken from Kazakhstan to the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow by plane at the request of the embassies of Hungary and Austria.
The day before, 1,489 Russian citizens were delivered from Kazakhstan to Russia.
On January 8, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation told about the lack of information about the victims in Kazakhstan among the citizens of Russia. As indicated in the department, the crisis headquarters of the embassy in Nur-Sultan is processing requests from Russians and forming lists for the subsequent resolution of the issue of their return to Russia.
On January 2, protests began in Kazakhstan due to the rise in prices for liquefied gas. In some cities, rallies escalated into riots. The situation has become especially aggravated in the largest city of the country – Alma-Ata. The protesters, among whom, according to the authorities, were extremists, broke into the administration building, set fire to the prosecutor’s office, the office of the ruling party and seized the presidential residence.
Violators of law and order armed themselves and began to loot, destroying shops, pharmacies and banks in the city. The criminals ransacked the offices of five TV channels, tried to attack the pre-trial detention center and attempted to enter the territory of a military unit in the Aktobe region.
The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, noted that the seized government offices were terrorist groups. He stressed that the bandits who caused the riots had received serious training abroad. The presidential administration of the country specified that among the militants operating in Alma-Ata there were snipers with special rifles.
During the riots, 16 security officials were killed, two of them were beheaded. In addition, there is information about attacks on doctors. As indicated in the commandant’s office of Alma-Ata, the brutal actions of the attackers testify to the terrorist and extremist nature of the bandit formations.
On January 5, Tokayev announced that he had applied to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO, which includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan) for help in overcoming the terrorist threat. Peacekeepers were sent to the republic for a limited period of time.
The main tasks of the collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO were the protection of important state and military facilities, assistance to the forces of law and order in Kazakhstan in stabilizing the situation and returning it to the legal field.
Source: IZ
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