CSTO collective peacekeeping forces will be withdrawn from Kazakhstan by January 19, said Russian Defense Minister, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, TASS reported.

He said that they will withdraw all the forces of colleagues from Armenia, Tajikistan and Belarus by 14 flights, and Kyrgyz colleagues will depart taking into account the fact that they are nearby, on their own, and then within five days the withdrawal will be carried out as the remaining peacekeeping forces transfer the facilities.

All the work are planned to be finished on the 19th day.

According to the Russian minister, CSTO peacekeepers in Kazakhstan have guarded 14 sites of special importance.

According to Shoigu, the deployment of CSTO peacekeepers in Kazakhstan allowed to free up about 1.6 thousand members of the republic's security agencies for the fight against bandits.