Russian troops board a military cargo plane to depart to Kazakhstan as part of a peacekeeping mission organized by the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on January 6, 2022 (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)

The decision to dispatch peacekeepers was a first for the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO).

The peacekeeping operation is over and the tasks have been fulfilled, said Russian General Andrei Serdyukov, commander of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces in Kazakhstan.