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 Working Group at the CSTO CMD has discussed electronic warfare in Minsk
07.06.2023
On June 7, this year, a regular meeting of the CSTO Working Group on electronic warfare chaired by Lieutenant General Yuri Lastochkin, the Chief of the electronic warfare forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, was held in Minsk.
The meeting was attended by the heads of military administrative bodies of the armed forces of the CSTO member states, responsible for the organization of electronic warfare in the national armed forces, and representatives of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning Department.
The meeting participants have considered issues of application of electronic warfare forces and facilities in modern armed conflicts, ensuring electromagnetic compatibility of radio-electronic means of the national armed forces.
Taking into account the importance of the issues discussed, Major General Viktor Gulevich, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus - took part in the meeting. In particular, he noted that "radioelectronic warfare in the conditions of modern confrontation is the most effective and quickly realizable means of neutralizing technical advantages of the opposing side in troop management”. He also supported the need for practical work on electronic warfare during joint operational and combat training with components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
