ALMATY, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Kazakh rights activists sent Ukraine fresh bundles of aid this week including clothing, medicines - and three huge round multi-coloured yurts - a not-so coded message of support from the citizens of a country traditionally close to Moscow. Kozhaliyeva believes the public response was strong because many Kazakhs consider Ukraine spiritually and historically close: the term "Kazakh" has the same origins - in a Turkic word meaning "free man" - as "cossack", the semi-military steppe culture embraced in Ukraine. "We are helping ourselves in the first place by helping Ukraine, we are supporting our independence, our decolonisation, and the image of our country