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 held joint command-staff training aimed at practicing the formation and deployment of the CAR CRDF
11.10.2022
On October 10-11, a joint command-staff training on "Preparation of proposals and draft decisions for the formation and deployment of the Central Asian Regional Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF) in the crisis area on the territory of a the CSTO member state" was held in the Collective Security Treaty Organization under the charge of First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Lieutenant General Khasan Kaloyev.
According to the training situation, the CSTO has received a Request from the President of a member country for military and military-technical assistance to resolve the crisis situation related to the threat of invasion of the territory of a CSTO member state by illegal armed groups.
The Crisis Response Center was deployed in Moscow in response to the appeal. Officers of the Joint Staff and members of the CSTO Secretariat were included in the functional groups. Interaction with ministries and agencies of the Organization's member States was organized by videoconferencing.
At the first stage, training participants assessed the military-political and military-strategic situation in the CSTO area of responsibility, predicted its development, and developed proposals for priority measures of a political and diplomatic nature.
The second stage involved the preparation of proposals on the composition, regrouping, operational deployment and use of the CAR CRDF, as well as on the provision of military and technical assistance to a member state of the Organization.
The result of the joint command-staff training was the elaboration of a set of documents, decisions of the Organization's bodies on the formation and deployment of the CAR CRDF. The documents worked out during the joint command-staff training will be used in the joint training with the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2022". A decision was made to dispatch a task force of the CSTO Joint Staff to the crisis area.
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Объединённый пресс-центр учений ОДКБ
