Kazakhstan’s president says a Russia-led military alliance will start leaving after helping quell “foreign-backed” protests in the oil-rich Central Asian country. In an address to senior government officials and members of parliament, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Tuesday that the withdrawal would take “no more than 10 days.” Last week, ...
Russia has the right to decide for itself where to deploy troops inside the country, and it will continue military exercises, the Russian Embassy said in connection with US Deputy Secretary Wendy R. Sherman’s calls to withdraw troops from the border with Ukraine. “We don’t understand the logic of @DeputySecState ...