The collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO in Kazakhstan will number about 2.5 thousand people. This, as reported by RIA Novosti, said the Secretary General of the organization Stanislav Zas.
“The total number of the grouping of the collective peacekeeping forces may be different. Now, in accordance with the decisions that have been made, there are about 2,500 people, ”he said.
According to him, the entire list of units, formations included in the CSTO peacekeeping forces, is about 3.6 thousand.
“Therefore, if necessary, we will strengthen the grouping in Kazakhstan,” he added.
Protests in Kazakhstan began after the New Year over the rise in the price of liquefied gas. The government resigned, while the CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send a collective peacekeeping force to Kazakhstan at the request of the president of the republic.
Law enforcement officials of Kazakhstan have detained 3,811 people in connection with the riots, the Kazakh Tengrinews agency reported on the Telegram channel data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the ministry, 26 participants in the riots were eliminated, another 26 people were injured.
Source: Rosbalt
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