diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/20260723-remove-module-utils-six.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/20260723-remove-module-utils-six.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bdbe218720
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/20260723-remove-module-utils-six.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+  - Remove the remaining ``ansible.module_utils.six`` import to avoid deprecation
+    warnings, replacing it with the Python standard library equivalent (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1197).
diff --git a/plugins/connection/kubectl.py b/plugins/connection/kubectl.py
index 1f865cd0d0..1b8cf4bf29 100644
--- a/plugins/connection/kubectl.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/kubectl.py
@@ -262,11 +262,11 @@
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import tempfile
+from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFileNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
 from ansible.plugins.connection import BUFSIZE, ConnectionBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display