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 CSTO Military Committee will discuss the challenges and threats to the military security of the CSTO member states on November 19
17.11.2020
On November 19, 2020, the 17th meeting of the Military Committee on the development of military cooperation of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held via videoconferencing.
The meeting under the supervision of the Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, is planned to be attended by the Chiefs of General Staffs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Tajikistan, the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff. The event is planned to be attended by the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Piotr Tsikhanouski.
The meeting of the Military Committee will discuss challenges and threats to military security in the regions of collective security, the main directions for the development of military cooperation of the CSTO member states in the medium term, as well as issues of joint training of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) in 2021.
Members of the Military Committee will be informed about the working meetings of representatives of the medical services of the defense departments of the CSTO member states and about the results of the first stage of comprehensive research work aimed at improving the CSTO Collective Military Air Forces.
