The first Russian military units arrived in Kazakhstan as part of the peacekeeping mission of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, RIA Novosti reports , citing the Russian Ministry of Defense. Units of the 45th separate special forces brigade of the Russian Airborne Forces, Ivanovo and Ulyanovsk airborne formations were sent to Kazakhstan. This formation participated in the Chechen campaigns, the conflict with Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea to Russia, and Syria.

On Chistoprudny Boulevard in the center of Moscow, near the Kazakh Embassy, ​​nine people who picketed in support of the protesters were detained. this reported One of the detainees . The names of several detainees are being clarified: Oleg Kravchenko, Alexander Zimbovsky, Elena Sidorenko, Ivan Solovyov, Elmar Rustamov, Alexander Nikolaev. It is alleged that among those detained are a journalist and an 80-year-old woman; what offense the picketers are charged with is still unclear.