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 held the first staff talks on the preparation of joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Forces in 2022
28.04.2022
From April 26 to 28 of this year, the CSTO Joint Staff held the first staff talks on the organization and conduct of joint trainings with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), planned to be held in 2022.
Representatives of the concerned ministries and agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the CSTO Secretariat took part in the talks under the general supervision of Lieutenant General Hasan Kaloyev, First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.
In the course of the talks, the basics of the intentions of the joint trainings, the composition of the command and control bodies and troops involved in the trainings, and the procedure for the participation of invited contingents and observers in the joint events were examined and discussed.
A set of activities is envisaged as part of the operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2022".
Under the supervision of the CSTO Chief of the Joint Staff, in the course of the strategic command post training, the Organization's Crisis Response Center in cooperation with operational groups of concerned ministries and departments of states will consider in detail the factors affecting the state of collective security, forecast the development of the military, political and strategic situation, determine the probability and measures for the resolution of crisis situations.
In the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan it is planned to carry out trainings integrating the preparation of various components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces): command and staff training with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces "Interaction-2022", special training with forces and means of intelligence "Search-2022" and with forces and means of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) "Echelon-2022".
In order to practice the use of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system to counter international terrorist organizations, a joint training with units of the Central Asian Region’s Collective Rapid Deployment Forces "Rubezh-2022" was planned on the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan.
At the final stage of the operational-strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2022" in the Kyrgyz Republic it is planned to hold a command and staff training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2022", during which the tasks of post-conflict settlement in the crisis zone and conducting a peacekeeping operation will be practiced.
The organization and conduct of these activities is carried out in accordance with the Regulations on the procedure for the preparation and conduct of joint trainings in the CSTO format, approved by the CSTO Collective Security Council decision of November 28, 2019.
