Aleksandr Kalyaninov, the co-pilot killed in the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash near Aktau, Kazakhstan, on December 25, was a graduate of the Kropyvnytskyi Flight Academy in Ukraine.
A passenger jet belonging to an Azerbaijani airline, which crashed near Aktau in western Kazakhstan on December 25, was reportedly shot down by a Russian air defense system.
The Minister of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan, Arman Shakkaliev, assured that not a single case of sanctioned dual-purpose goods being sent by Kazakh companies to Russia was exposed in six months.
Kazakhstan has introduced a ban on export to Russia of 106 types of goods, including technology, which Russia can potentially use in the defense sector.
The National Security Committee of Kazakhstan is investigating 10 criminal cases related to the participation of Kazakh citizens in Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.