Russia: 18 planes will bring home peacekeepers from Kazakhstan
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Russian military planes will carry Russian peacekeepers back home after fulfilling their mission in Kazakhstan's Almaty.
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The Russian Defense Ministry confirms that units of Russian paratroopers will leave to the Ivanovo region.
Russian Il-76 and An-124 military planes carrying Russian peacekeepers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) mission departed Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Saturday, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
"Units of the Russian peacekeepers of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces in Kazakhstan have loaded military vehicles on board of the Il-76 and An-124 military transport planes," the Ministry said in a statement.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, up to 18 planes will bring back Russian peacekeepers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) mission and military vehicles to Russia's Moscow Region and Ivanovo Region on Saturday.
"Today, 15 Il-76 and three An-124 Russian military transport planes will deliver staff and vehicles of the airborne units, which have fulfilled tasks as part of the CSTO collective peacekeeping forces, to the airfields in the Ivanovo and Moscow regions," the statement said.
Following that, the units will march to their permanent deployment locations.
Over 2,400 participants of civil unrest detained in Kazakhstan
Since the start of the counter-terrorist operation, more than 2,400 civil unrest participants have been detained in Almaty, Kazakhstan, according to the city commandant's office on Saturday.
"A total of 2,402 participants of illegal rallies, looting, and other crimes have been detained," the commandant's office said in a statement, adding that the security forces had seized many weapons and ammunition.
CSTO peacekeepers guard strategic assets
The Kazakh Presidency said earlier that peacekeepers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military alliance of six post-Soviet states, are guarding key assets in protest-hit Kazakhstan.
"A joint contingent of CSTO peacekeepers was put on guard duty at several strategic facilities," the President's office said in a statement.
According to his office, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was briefed on measures to restore order in the country. Police and armed forces are maintaining a state of emergency, manning roadblocks, and searching for terrorists blamed for violence during protests, according to authorities.
