During the “Conduct of combat operations” stage, two main training objectives are being practiced: the occupation by the national contingents of the CRDF CAR of the area of responsibility and the destruction of illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
The active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” has begun at the Koktal training range in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the exercise, the participating forces are practicing the preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
On September 11, 2026, a round table entitled “Kazakhstan–Central Asia–Greater Eurasia: resilience and security amid new challenges” was held at the Center for Social Conservative Policy. The event was organized by the CSTO Secretariat jointly with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Center for Social Conservative Policy (CSCP).
The event was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, Director of the ICCA RAS Kirill Babaev, members of the CSTO Permanent Council and representatives of the academic and expert communities of the member states. The discussion was moderated by Yuri Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
The question of inviting representatives of the ICRC to trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2019” on the territory of Tajikistan in October of this year was considered
24.04.2019
On April 24, 2019 a working meeting of the Acting CSTO Secretary General Valery Semerikov with Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Gilles Carbonnier was held on the VIII Moscow Conference on International Security in Moscow.
Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Piotr Tsikhanouski, Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation to the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova Magne Barth, Operational Coordinator of the Regional Operations Department in Europe and Central Asia Eric Daniel Bunskog, other representatives of the ICRC, and also the staff of the CSTO Secretariat took part in the working meeting.
A constructive exchange of views on issues relating to the state and further development of partnerships and mutually beneficial relations between the CSTO Secretariat and the ICRC took place.
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The question of inviting representatives of the ICRC to trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2019” on the territory of Tajikistan in October of this year was considered.
One of the important results is the confirmation of mutual interest in moving cooperation between the CSTO and the ICRC to a higher level.
