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 Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov attended the opening of the “Combat Brotherhood-2023” joint trainings
01.09.2023
On 1 September 2023, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, who is on a working visit to the Republic of Belarus, took part in the opening of the joint operational-strategic trainings of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) "Combat Brotherhood-2023".
Addressing the training participants, the CSTO Secretary General noted the complex international situation against the backdrop of the trainings.
"New sources of tension are emerging in various regions of the world and old conflicts are escalating. Modern crises are increasingly hybrid in nature and require special approaches to their resolution.
The peculiarity of these trainings is their comprehensiveness. Today, the use of a military component is not sufficient for the successful conduct of an operation. A systematic approach is needed, involving close cooperation and collaboration between a whole range of forces and means.
New challenges and security threats have largely determined the format of the upcoming event," the CSTO Secretary General said.
Concluding his speech, Imangali Tasmagambetov expressed his confidence that the strengthening of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces was the most important condition for protecting the vital security interests of the Organization's member states and for building a system of unified and indivisible security at the region.
