All the planned forces of the CSTO arrived in Kazakhstan. According to the commander-in-chief of the operation, Andrei Serdyukov, the peacekeepers have begun to perform their tasks. They guard military, state and socially significant facilities in Alma-Ata and areas adjacent to the city. They also help the Russians who have stayed in the country to return home.
At the airport of Almaty for the first time in the last week, civil passengers. From Kazakhstan to Russia military board a hundred people take off. One of them is Denis from Moscow.
– Fly home?
– Home, home to Moscow.
– Did you work here?
– No, no, we were on vacation.
– What was the situation?
– Hot. There were shots. We arrived at the airport that day when we captured the airport.
Olga Dzhanich also came to Kazakhstan from Yekaterinburg with the children, but they only managed to go skiing for a few days. Riots and shooting broke out near their hotel in the center of Almaty.
– Then we sat at home, listened to the explosions.
– Did you hear it straight?
– Certainly. We were already in the city center next to the Revolution Square, – says Olga Dzhanich.
In total, there are plans to send 10 planes to Moscow – this is 10,000 people, including not only Russians. They will be delivered to the Chkalovsky airfield.
Military transport Il-76 is far from business class, but this is the only way to fly from Almaty, because there are still no civil flights here.
– Better than sitting under the bullets. I want to go home, thank you very much.
– Thanks to the peacekeepers and thanks to the people who are now at the airport, they took great care – they gave warm tea, indicated where the first-aid post was.
It was possible to promptly organize the shipment only thanks to the Russian consulate. Russian military members CSTO peacekeeping forces continue to provide security at the state military strategic facilities of Kazakhstan and where radical groups clashed with Kazakhstani law enforcement officers. A military post had to be set up even in a shopping center on the outskirts of Almaty.
The center was robbed twice by armed looters. The surveillance cameras were not shy. The doors were simply broken down with fittings. The shop’s security guards built barricades, defended themselves with the help of fire hydrants. Two security personnel of the shopping center were injured. It can be seen that the hijackers knew where to go and what to take. They opened almost all the ATMs. Large equipment was not taken away. The shopping center is, of course, closed now.
Local residents became unwitting witnesses of the riots, many still go out into the street only in case of emergency.
“Why did I look out? There were some bangs, like from noise grenades. But in fact, these bangs were here – the doors were probably knocked out. We got into the car and left, there was no police. There was a local police station around the corner. It’s under the regional department. happened, not a single policeman was there, “says Sergei Sokolov, a local resident.
There is still no internet in Almaty. Vacation for schoolchildren and students was extended. The streets are empty, banks, government offices and shops are closed.
“I have never seen the city like this, it’s hard for me,” says a local resident.
People are forced to borrow food, they ran out of cash, and there is no way to withdraw money – ATMs do not work.
“I don’t have money, banks don’t work, ATMs don’t work. Believe it on my word – it’s okay, I wrote it down in a book, then they came and gave it back,” says Viktor Kadyshev, the owner of the store.
The situation began to stabilize only with the arrival of the CSTO peacekeeping forces. They completed their deployment on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
“Collective subdivisions carry out the task of protecting socially significant objects. The tasks will continue until the situation in the country is completely stabilized,” says Andrei Serdyukov, commander of the CSTO collective peacekeeping forces in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
“The protection of the most important facilities by the peacekeepers will allow us to free up the organs for the fight against terrorism,” said Sultan Kamaletdinov, Deputy Defense Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Local authorities already on Monday, January 10, promised to open a public service center, but the counter-terrorist operation is still ongoing.
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