The Kazakh Foreign Ministry has reproached the Ukrainian ambassador to Kazakhstan, Nikolai Doroshenko, for recent statements made by the Ukrainian intelligence authorities about alleged supplies of arms materials from Astana to Moscow.
Thus, Astana has responded to 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 U.S. 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 armaments by circumventing the sanctions imposed by a large part of the international community in the framework of the war in Ukraine.
From Astana they have conveyed to Ambassador Doroshenko their «concern» about claims that, they point out, are «unfounded», and at the same time they have expressed their readiness to provide information to Kiev on the issues 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 Kiev, and will also forward the results of this meeting to the Ukrainian authorities.
Already on previous occasions, Ukrainian representatives have accused Russia-friendly Asian countries of favoring Moscow’s interests and helping to circumvent sanctions. In fact, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry has already had to deny Ukrainian claims that Tashkent was assembling Iranian drones for Russia.
