(ANSA) - ROMA, 13 GEN - epa09682780 Russian servicemen attend
the ceremony marking the beginning of the withdrawal of
peacekeeping troops of the Collective Security Treaty
Organisation (CSTO) from Kazakhstan in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 13
January 2022. In accordance with the decision of the CSTO
Collective Security Council adopted on 06 January 2022, the
collective peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) have been sent 'for a limited time to
stabilize and normalize the situation to Kazakhstan' at the
request of the Kazakh president. They include units of the Armed
Forces of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
The Russian Ministry of Defence announced on 08 January that the
tranfer of the Russian contingent of the CSTO peacekeeping
forces to Kazakhstan's 'Almaty' and 'Zhitygen' airfields
continued by military transport aircraft from Russia's airfields
in the Moscow, Ivanovo, and Ulyanovsk regions. EPA/STR (ANSA).