diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py
index dcb5cf216c996..86e226ff9973a 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 import re
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union, cast
 
 from huggingface_hub import HfApi, hf_hub_download
+from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.request import ChatCompletionRequest
 # yapf: disable
-from mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.mistral import ChatCompletionRequest
 from mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.mistral import (
     MistralTokenizer as PublicMistralTokenizer)
 # yapf: enable
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ def apply_chat_template(self,
                             tools: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
                             **kwargs) -> List[int]:
 
-        last_message = messages[-1]
+        last_message = cast(Dict[str, Any], messages[-1])
         if last_message["role"] == "assistant":
             last_message["prefix"] = True