EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrel expressed "great concern" about the developments in Kazakhstan and spoke skeptically about the CSTO peacekeeping assistance.

The Presidents of Uzbekistan and Turkey, Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, discussed Uzbek-Turkish relations, the situation in Central Asia and the situation in Kazakhstan during a telephone conversation on Thursday, the press service of the Uzbek leader reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a telephone conversation with the leader of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, expressed hope for the stabilization of the situation on the territory of Kazakhstan, the Anadolu agency reported on Thursday.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Kazakhstan "cannot be given" to the external forces that provoked chaos, since it will be the same "gift as Ukraine for the United States."

A peacekeeping company of the 103rd Airborne Vitebsk Brigade of special operations forces has been sent to Kazakhstan, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said on Thursday.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that it is impossible to give Kazakhstan, it will be a gift to the West, comparable to Ukraine.

Belarus is ready to provide assistance to the friendly people of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus said on Thursday.

The Tajik Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that the republic is ready to take part in the CSTO peacekeeping operation to assist Kazakhstan.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has published a video of the landing of the first units from the CSTO peacekeeping forces in Kazakhstan.

The total number of Russian military personnel in the peacekeeping contingent of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) There will be less than 5 thousand people in Kazakhstan, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday, citing a source close to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The first units of the Russian contingent of the CSTO peacekeeping forces have arrived in Kazakhstan. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.

There, it was noted that the Russian contingent of military transport aircraft was delivered to the territory of Kazakhstan. Now Russian peacekeepers with regular equipment continue to be transferred to Kazakhstan.

Sending units of the armed forces of the CSTO countries to Kazakhstan and, in particular, Russian paratroopers, is not interference in the internal affairs of Kazakhstan, former commander of the Airborne Troops of the Russian Federation, retired Colonel-General Georgy Shpak, told Interfax.

To stabilize the situation in Kazakhstan, collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO have been sent to this country for a limited period of time, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the organization's secretariat.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regards what is happening in Kazakhstan as an externally inspired attempt to undermine the security and integrity of the Central Asian state.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that in connection with the appeal of the President of Kazakhstan, he decided to send the collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO to the republic in order to stabilize and normalize the situation.

The situation in the cities of Kazakhstan is destabilized not by peaceful protesters, but by militants with experience of military operations in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Dmitry Sablin said.

Kazakhstan, in an appeal to the CSTO for help, called what is happening in the country an invasion of militants trained abroad, the CSTO press service reported.

The Taliban movement that seized Afghanistan (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) said it was concerned about the unrest in Kazakhstan.

Estonian President Alar Karis views Russia's proposals on security guarantees as an ultimatum and does not see them as a basis for negotiations with the West.

The United States is aiming for a quick return together with Tehran to compliance with the obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear deal, as there is less and less time for this, White House press Secretary Jen Psaki said.