On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
The CSTO Collective Forces in the course of the first stage of the "Echelon-2020" special training began to deploy the material and technical area
18.08.2020
On August 18, this year, in the course of the first stage of the "Echelon-2020" special training with the assets of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces at the “Kapustin Yar” training ground in the Astrakhan region, specialists began to deploy the material and technical area.
With the receipt of the letter of instruction, the officials of the CSTO CRRF Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics control center began to develop an idea for organizing the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics during the joint operation. In the course of the work, new algorithms for the work of the logistics management groups are tested.
Specialists of the defense departments of the CSTO member states, in cooperation with the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics units of the Southern Military District in the field, fulfilled the standards for replenishment of ammunition consumption on-station, the deployment of a mass refueling area in order to replenish fuel consumption in the course of the march, the deployment of a bath and laundry plant using field kits laundry PPP-60 and mobile field bath PPB-32, as well as mobile bakery.
At the training ground, the servicemen deployed a PSG-600 field fuel depot and started refueling the vehicles involved in the training.
Together with the units of a separate repair and evacuation regiment of the Southern Military District, they deployed an integrated area for the repair and restoration of automobile and armored vehicles. To carry out operational confirmation of the safety and quality of food raw materials and food products of animal and plant origin, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics specialists prepared a mobile field veterinary and sanitary laboratory for operation.
Military contingents of the Organization's member states and an operational group of the CSTO Joint Staff are taking part in the training under the charge of the Deputy Commander of the Southern Military District for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, Lieutenant General Viktor Voronov. In total, about 1,000 military personnel and about 250 pieces of equipment are involved.
The Joint Press Center for the CSTO "Echelon-2020" training
