Russian State Duma deputy named a new victim of his country – Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan may become a new victim of Russian aggression. This statement was allegedly made by Russian State Duma deputy Andrei Gurulev, who has the rank of lieutenant general. According to the Telegram channel “VChK-OGPU”, the politician named the new victim of the Russian Federation in a voice message that he sent to colleagues from the Defense Committee. The recording was leaked online.
“The Kazakhs, having seen enough of Ukraine, are very b*tched that they are next. They are now getting ready. In principle, I think there is already a solution,” said the deputy .
Earlier it became known that one of the largest banks in Kazakhstan, Halyk Bank, stopped servicing Russian Mir cards from the end of February . It is worth noting that Kazakhstan is considered a state friendly to the Russian Federation.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led some observers to assume that Kazakhstan would pivot its foreign relations away from Russia towards the West. The country has maintained an officially neutral position towards the war and no longer sees Russia as its security guarantor in the same way it once did. Kazakhstan frequently criticises Russian-led regional economic integration efforts, but Kazakh business elites have enduring and lucrative ties with Russia, and Moscow has other important economic leverage over its southern neighbour. Additionally, Russia now controls 25 per cent of Kazakhstan’s uranium production. Russia and China have a shared interest in seeing Kazakhstan become more integrated with their economies and move partly away from the West, without fully closing a window to the unsanctioned world for Russia. Kazakhstan shares a 4,500 mile border with its northern neighbour, and decoupling their interdependent economies is not easy