The parties signed the Military Cooperation Plan between the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for 2025-2026.
Although this cooperation is only in language training and the education of officers, the Russians are extremely irritated.
Before this event, information was reported that Kazakhstan is building a new ammunition production plant. Including the 155-mm NATO calibre. Away from the Russian border. With the Singaporeans, and without the Russians.
It is obvious that the country’s authorities, despite certain Russophile tendencies, are beginning to understand the danger of “cooperation” with Russia. Russia, completely according to the Ukrainian scenario, can reject northeastern Kazakhstan with a large Russian-speaking minority. Astana seems to understand that the war in Ukraine is giving them a breathing space and is trying to increase its resistance capabilities, including the creation of a territorial defence network.
Moscow’s neighbours are leaving it in geopolitical isolation.
