Armed gangs are retreating from Almaty to the Almaty region, Sputnik Kazakhstan reports.
“Armed gangs are retreating from Almaty to the Almaty region,” the agency said in a statement.
According to the agency, gunfire is on the rise in the Almaty region. As a resident of Taldykorgan told the agency, her car was fired upon in the city, she fled, leaving the car.
Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the early days of 2022. Then the residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed a two-fold increase in prices for liquefied gas, then the protests spread to other cities. In Alma-Ata, on January 4 and 5, clashes with security officials took place, the police used gas and stun grenades. Throughout Kazakhstan, the Internet was turned off, and the broadcasting of a number of TV channels was temporarily stopped. Until January 19, a state of emergency was introduced throughout Kazakhstan.
On the morning of January 5, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the republic’s Security Council. The CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan in connection with Tokayev’s appeal. The forces will be sent for a limited period in order to stabilize and normalize the situation in the country.