On September 4 this year, a round table entitled “CSTO–SCO: Security Space” was held as part of the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. CSTO Secretariat representative Igor Panarin took part in the event.
On September 4, 2026, consultations on “Coordinating the positions of CSTO member states on the agenda of the UN General Assembly” were held in Moscow in accordance with the Plan of Consultations of Representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Member States on Foreign Policy, Security and Defense for 2025–2027.
On September 4 this year, a round table entitled “CSTO–SCO: Security Space” was held as part of the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Today, a briefing was held by Colonel General Andrey Nikolaevich Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, on the topic “On the readiness of command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system forces and assets to conduct joint exercises.”
CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov holds a working meeting with Minister of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic Ruslan Mukambetov
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
