"Russian paratroopers have flown into Kazakhstan as part of a Kremlin-led ex-Soviet military alliance to help quash an uprising by armed protesters who have torched Kazakh government buildings and chased the police off the streets.
The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) said it had deployed peacekeeping troops to Kazakhstan after local security forces killed dozens of protesters in the worst unrest since the fall of the Soviet Union thirty years ago.
Airborne troops from Russia, as well as contingents from Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, will take part in the operation".
Overnight, Kazakh special forces also deployed into central Almaty, the leafy crucible of middle-class life in Kazakhstan, fighting gun battles with the protesters.
Dozens have been liquidated. The identities are being established", Saltanat Azirbek, an Almaty police spokesperson, told media.
Photos from Almaty showed Kazakh soldiers wearing balaclavas and full combat kit patrolling through the empty streets of Kazakhstan's normally bustling commercial hub."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...curity-forces/
Russian ac have been reporting flying out some of the big wigs