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 14th meeting of the CSTO Military Committee was held in Moscow. Chiefs of General Staffs discussed challenges and threats to military security in the Central Asian region
21.06.2019
On June 21, 2019, the 14th meeting of the Military Committee on the development of military cooperation of the states members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was held in Moscow.
The meeting was attended by the Chiefs of the General Staffs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the First Deputy Chiefs of the General Staffs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus and the Kyrgyz Republic, the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov. The CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov participated in the meeting of the CSTO Military Committee.
During the meeting, the priorities of the CSTO activities in the military sphere, proposed by the Kyrgyz Republic during the CSTO chairmanship, challenges and threats to military security in the Central Asian region, as well as the procedure for conducting joint operational and combat training in 2019 were discussed.
The participants of the event addressed the issues of improving the composition of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces and the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Collective Security Region.
The meeting considered the procedure for the participation of servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Organization's member states in a military parade on May 9, 2020 in Moscow, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, speaking on this issue, noted that the preparation of the contingent is planned to be held in three stages. The final stage will be held on the basis of the Alabinsky garrison and Red Square in the form of joint training in the spring of 2020.
Members of the Military Committee were also informed about the activities of the Military Academy of Army air defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.Vasilevsky as a basic educational and methodical and research organization of the CSTO. As a result, a number of agreements were reached aimed at strengthening the collective security of the CSTO member states.
