Russian-Led Bloc Agrees To Send Troops To Restore Order In Kazakhstan
(update6:24eastern): After hours ago Kazakhstan's embattled President Tokayev formally requested the CSTO security bloc - which involves 6 former Soviet countries including Russia and Belarus - for military assistance to quell largescale uprising which was triggered over a rapid fuel price hike, the Kremlin has said it is sending Russian troops.
In the early hours of Thursday (local time), the Russian-led bloc approved the "peace-keeping" mission in the former Soviet satellite state along Russia's border to its south. Chairman of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikol Pashinyan, has announced a "limited" mission due to the "threat to national security" of Kazakhstan. This after President Tokayev had blamed "external aggression" on the unrest which has seen government buildings torched and banks looted.
“In response to the appeal by [President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev] and considering a threat to national security and sovereignty of Kazakhstan, caused, among other things, by outside interference, the CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send the Collective Peacekeeping Forces to the Republic of Kazakhstan in accordance with Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty,” Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan said in a statement on Facebook.
The CSTO is a central Asia-focused military alliance of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. But logistically it could prove a significant problem to move any level of a large Russian forces, given other factors...
Russia last year was busy moving whole army from Kazakhstan border to the border of Ukraine. And that is not "rapid deployment forces" easy to move https://t.co/wZZXFurCh9
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