From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
On June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated in the event.
Contingents of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces are deployed to the Republic of Kazakhstan
06.01.2022
In accordance with the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council adopted on January 6, 2022, the Collective Security Treaty Organization Collective Peacekeeping Forces have been sent to the Republic of Kazakhstan for a limited period of time to stabilize and normalize the situation.
They included units of the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.
The main tasks of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces will be the protection of important state and military facilities, assistance to the law enforcement forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan in stabilizing the situation and returning it to the legal field.
From the Russian Federation, the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces include units and military units of the Airborne Troops.
At present the Russian part of the Russian peacekeeping contingent is being redeployed to the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan by planes of the military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The advanced units of the contingent have already begun to carry out their assigned tasks.
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The CSTO Press Secretary
Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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