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
Electronic warfare issues discussed by the Working Group under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers
17.06.2026
On June 17, a regular meeting of the Working Group on Electronic Warfare under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
The event was chaired by Colonel General Yury Lastochkin, Chief of the Electronic Warfare Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It was attended by representatives of the defense ministries of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as a group of officers from the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Deputy Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Employment Planning Center.
In his video address to the participants, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov noted that the experience of contemporary armed conflicts, including the special military operation, confirms the need for the effective organization and conduct of electronic warfare in support of missions carried out by military groupings. He emphasized that this issue is of particular importance in the context of the joint employment of electronic warfare assets within the CSTO Collective Forces. Equally important are the development of a joint interstate electronic warfare system, the equipping of the armed forces of the CSTO member states with modern weapon systems, and the training of qualified specialists.
During the meeting, participants discussed issues related to improving the CSTO regulatory and legal framework in the field of electronic warfare, conducting joint training activities involving electronic warfare units of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), and the experience of employing electronic warfare assets of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in modern armed conflicts. They also considered approaches to shaping the structure and legal foundation of a Joint (Unified) Electronic Warfare System of the armed forces of the CSTO member states.
