On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
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.
Working group under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers has discussed electronic warfare in the Republic of Kazakhstan
On June 19, in Astana, the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a regular meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers on electronic warfare was held.
The event, chaired by Lieutenant General Yuri Lastochkin, Chief of the Electronic Warfare Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, was attended by representatives of the defense agencies of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation and a group of officers from the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Application Planning Department.
During the meeting, the participants discussed the experience of using electronic warfare forces and means in modern armed conflicts, the results of research into the organization of joint use of electronic warfare units within the framework of the joint training with the CSTO CRRF "Interaction-2023", as well as the prospects for the development of military-technical cooperation in the field of equipping with compatible samples of electronic warfare equipment.
Based on the results of the discussion, it was deemed advisable to further improve the Organization's regulatory legal framework in the area of electronic warfare.
Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan
