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.
A meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Collective Forces was held
24.11.2021
On November 23, this year, a meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) was held via videoconferencing.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics management bodies of the defense departments of the CSTO member States and Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.
In the course of the meeting the issues of internal approval of the draft Provisions on material reserves to support the formations of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), maintenance and updating of material reserves in the CSTO member States for the formations of the Central Asian region Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF) and the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CSTO CRRF), as well as the procedure for transportation of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) from one CSTO member State to another in an attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a CSTO member State were considered.
The results of a special training with the assets of the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) "Echelon-2021", as well as the organization issues of training "Echelon-2022", planned in 2022 in the Republic of Kazakhstan have been discussed.
Particular attention was paid to the report by Colonel Dayyrkul uulu Aibek, head of the Main Logistics Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, on efforts to improve the nutrition of military personnel when performing tasks in high altitude conditions. The Defense Ministry of the Kyrgyz Republic tested a new version of a special dry ration, which included national kinds of marching food. It was decided to continue working on this topic as part of the research work "Coalition-MTO-22," which will open in 2022 at the Army General A.V. Khrulev Military Academy of Material and Technical Support in order to improve the system of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
A regular meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) is scheduled to take place in the Republic of Kazakhstan during a special training "Echelon-2022”.
