On September 4 this year, a round table entitled “CSTO–SCO: Security Space” was held as part of the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. CSTO Secretariat representative Igor Panarin took part in the event.
On September 4, 2026, consultations on “Coordinating the positions of CSTO member states on the agenda of the UN General Assembly” were held in Moscow in accordance with the Plan of Consultations of Representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Member States on Foreign Policy, Security and Defense for 2025–2027.
On September 4 this year, a round table entitled “CSTO–SCO: Security Space” was held as part of the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Today, a briefing was held by Colonel General Andrey Nikolaevich Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, on the topic “On the readiness of command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system forces and assets to conduct joint exercises.”
CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov holds a working meeting with Minister of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic Ruslan Mukambetov
Special training “Search-2024”: reconnaissance teams are withdrawn to the areas of task fulfillment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.
