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.
As part of the improvement of crisis response, duty shifts practiced joint actions in identifying sabotage, terrorist attacks and emergencies
28.03.2025
On 28 March, the CSTO Joint Staff held a joint training session for the operational duty shift of the CSTO Crisis Response Centre, the duty shifts of the command post of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus and the National Defense Control Centre of the Russian Federation, with the involvement of representatives of the ministries of emergency situations of the CSTO member states.
The theme of the training: “Procedure of actions of duty shifts in case of identification of signs (preconditions) of a crisis, emergency situation in the East European region of collective security”.
The main objectives of the event were to improve practical skills in the actions of duty shifts during the formation of national contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) and their regrouping in the area of a crisis situation, as well as to enhance the coherence of the work of duty shifts in carrying out joint tasks.
In the course of the training, the duty shifts practiced their actions, in particular, in identifying state border violators and in the course of destroying sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
In addition, in a single information space, joint actions with duty shifts of the Ministries of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation worked out issues of response to a terrorist act at a chemically hazardous facility.
Major General Arsen Rakhmanov, Head of the Crisis Response Centre, summarizing the results of the training, noted that all the issues of information exchange in accordance with the list of information subject to information exchange between the CSTO Crisis Response Centre and the authorized bodies of the CSTO member states were successfully worked out, and the duty shifts acted confidently.
Photo by the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff
