Immense help ukraine has gotten from countries it has no formal alliance with. even kaz ig stan sent humanitarian aid to ukraine. you would expect them to stand with moscow in the court of international opinion. instead as the economists point out, they generally maintain neutrality. they ve made carefully worded statements or stayed silent. none have recognized the breakaway republics in donbas. they all abstained in the main u.n. votes condemning russian aggression, though most of them did vote to keep russia in the u.n. human rights council. belarus is the one country that has given russia major assistance. the two nations enjoy a special relationship, having agreed in 1999 to form a so-called union state. in 2020 when massive protests threatened to topple the leader,
Belarus, kazakhstan. all of those nations except krig stan join him with the union. these companies trade heavily with russia and host russian bases on military facilities. in january facing anti-government unrest, kazakhstan s ruler called in the cfto troops, the forces to restore order. in 2020 they fought a bloody war with azerbaijan, they dispatched russian soldiers to keep the peace. yet despite these many connections during russia s war in ukraine, it s gotten almost nothing from armenia, kaz ig stan, kerz ig stan. tajikistan. no provided troops or supplies. kazakhstan refused a russian request for troops, those kazakhstan denies the request was ever made. whatever the case, it was all a remarkable contrast to the