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.
Special training “Search-2024”: reconnaissance teams are withdrawn to the areas of task fulfillment
08.09.2024
In the Kyrgyz Republic, at the Edelweiss training range, reconnaissance groups have been deployed to areas where they are to carry out tasks as part of the special training “Search-2024” with reconnaissance forces and means.
Their main purpose is to conduct various types of reconnaissance in the interests of the use of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) in localizing an armed conflict.
The reconnaissance officers will have to search for and detect various objects of the conditional enemy and illegal armed groups, as well as adjust the fire of weapons of mass destruction and carry out other special activities.
During the training, the reconnaissance officers are actively using strike drones of various types, thermal imagers and the latest communications equipment.
The theme of the special training “Search-2024” is the organization and conduct of reconnaissance by the forces and means of the intelligence agencies in the course of a joint operation by the CSTO CRRF to resolve an armed conflict.
During the special training “Search-2024”, a joint intelligence control point was set up and the following trainings are being practiced:
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organization of integrated intelligence;
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redirecting intelligence agencies to other intelligence objects;
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fulfillment of intelligence tasks through observation, eavesdropping, search and ambushes;
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return of reconnaissance bodies to the area where their combat effectiveness is restored, etc.
On the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, under the charge of Colonel Artur Temirov, First Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, a command-staff training with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces “Interaction-2024”, a special training with intelligence forces and means “Search-2024”, and a special training with logistical forces and means “Echelon-2024” are being conducted.
Contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan are taking part in the trainings. Among them are military contingents, formations of special-purpose forces from among the special units of the internal affairs (police), security and special services bodies, authorized bodies in the field of prevention and elimination of the consequences of emergency situations, as well as operational groups of the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat. A total of about 1,500 servicemen and up to 300 units of weapons, military and special equipment, including aviation, various types of strike drones, combat boats and air defense equipment, are involved.
