In accordance with the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council adopted on January 6, 2022, the Collective Security Treaty Organization Collective Peacekeeping Forces have been sent to the Republic of Kazakhstan for a limited period of time to stabilize and normalize the situation, the CSTO press service reports. 

They included units of the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.

The main tasks of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces will be the protection of important state and military facilities, assistance to the law enforcement forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan in stabilizing the situation and returning it to the legal field.

From the Russian Federation, the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces include units and military units of the Airborne Troops.

At present the Russian part of the Russian peacekeeping contingent is being redeployed to the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan by planes of the military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The advanced units of the contingent have already begun to carry out their assigned tasks.