“In one of the air defense military units near Chimkent, a junior sergeant under contract, Balgynbai, being on the shift as a company duty officer, left the unit’s location without permission. At the same time, a shortage of a certain amount of small arms was discovered, ”the Kazakh Defense Ministry reports to Tengrinews.kz.
It is noted that all the necessary operational-search measures are being taken to search for and detain a serviceman and missing weapons.
In 2019, in Ukraine, three days later, a soldier escaped with a weapon was detained.