Nov. 10 () –
The Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry has reproached the Ukrainian ambassador to the country, Nikolai Doroshenko, for recent statements made by the Ukrainian intelligence authorities about alleged supplies of weapons materials from Astana to Moscow.
Thus, Astana has come out against the statements of Vadim Skibitski, representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, during an interview for the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’, in which he accused Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan of selling American and Japanese components to Russia.
According to Skibitski, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, two well-known partners of Russia on the Asian continent, are trying in this way to help Moscow to obtain weapons, avoiding the sanctions imposed by a large part of the international community in the context of the war in Ukraine.
From Astana they have conveyed to Ambassador Doroshenko their “concern” about some statements that, they emphasize, are “unfounded”, at the same time that they have shown themselves willing to deliver information to kyiv on matters that the European country considers of interest, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Doroshenko, for his part, has assured the Kazakh side that he will “immediately” present Astana’s concerns to kyiv, and will also send the results of this meeting to the Ukrainian authorities.
Already on previous occasions, representatives of Ukraine have accused Asian countries close to Russia of favoring Moscow’s interests and helping to circumvent sanctions. In fact, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry has already had to deny Ukraine’s claims that Tashkent was assembling drones of Iranian origin for Russia.
