interestingly enough...the leader of chechnya and one of his top military personnel were caught on intercepted audio discussing invasion plans (so basically western intelligence is listening to these communications and notifying ukraine). also...outside of the chechen leaders close circles...it appears that other commanders were completely caught off guard with deployment orders like a week ago.
as far as kazakhstan...they outright refused to send troops for russia. they also refused to recognize the independence of the 2 ukrainian territories that russia used as a pretext for war. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1497368313873133570