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.
The CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat held a joint training with the participation of operational groups of the CSTO member states
24.08.2023
Issues related to the preparation of proposals for the deployment and use of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces in the Eastern European collective security region were worked out during a joint training session between the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat on the basis of the CSTO Crisis Response Centre from 23 to 24 August, in Moscow.
Operational groups from the Organization's member states participated in a joint training via videoconferencing.
According to the training situation, the CSTO Collective Security Council was approached by the President of a CSTO member state with a request for military and military-technical assistance to resolve the crisis situation.
In the course of the joint training, algorithms were worked out for the actions of the standing working bodies of the CSTO and the operational groups of its member states in responding to a crisis situation.
The draft decisions of the CSTO bodies will form the basis for the deployment of contingents of the CSTO CRRF during the joint and special trainings "Interaction-2023", "Search-2023", "Echelon-2023" and "Barrier-2023" on the territory of the Republic of Belarus in September this year.
