During the “Conduct of combat operations” stage, two main training objectives are being practiced: the occupation by the national contingents of the CRDF CAR of the area of responsibility and the destruction of illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
The active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” has begun at the Koktal training range in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the exercise, the participating forces are practicing the preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
On September 11, 2026, a round table entitled “Kazakhstan–Central Asia–Greater Eurasia: resilience and security amid new challenges” was held at the Center for Social Conservative Policy. The event was organized by the CSTO Secretariat jointly with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Center for Social Conservative Policy (CSCP).
The event was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, Director of the ICCA RAS Kirill Babaev, members of the CSTO Permanent Council and representatives of the academic and expert communities of the member states. The discussion was moderated by Yuri Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
The CSTO joint training "Cobalt-2022" started in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the "Edelweiss" training range
03.08.2022On August 3, 2022 in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the “Edelweiss” training range in Balykchy, the opening ceremony of the tactical and special training "Cobalt-2022" with the special forces formations included in the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) took place.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov made welcoming remarks at the event. Major General Oktyabr Urmambetov, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, noted that the purpose of the training was to prevent criminal activity in the member States, as well as close cooperation of the security agencies of the CSTO countries.
During the training, combined groups of special forces of the member states will perform training and applied operational and combat tasks of searching, blocking and neutralizing of gangs, terrorist groups, as well as closing drug smuggling channels and detection of caches, laboratories for the storage and production of drugs and their destruction.
The training plan calls for a command and staff training with the Operational Staff of the CSTO Collective Rapid Deployment Forces formations of special forces on planning a special operation and organizing interaction and management of dissimilar forces and equipment. At the end of the training, there will be shooting competitions using various types of weapons as well as sports competitions in soccer and volleyball among the teams of the training participants. The training will continue until 5 August, 2022.
