85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
In Tajikistan, the second stage of the joint training “Unbreakable Brotherhood-2019”
25.10.2019
On October 25, 2019, in Tajikistan, at the Harb-Maidon training ground, the second stage of the joint "Indestructible Brotherhood - 2019" training began.
The stage began with the delivery to the commander of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces, Major General Vyacheslav Gurov of the mandate of the CSTO Collective Security Council for conducting a peacekeeping operation. Recall that last year the CSTO peacekeepers practiced actions under the UN mandate in the territory of a state that is not a member of the CSTO.
The training involves military contingents, police units of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Collective peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization are preparing for a joint peacekeeping operation in mountainous desert areas and preparing peacekeeping continents for their mission.
Subsequently, in the second stage of the “Indestructible Brotherhood-2019”, the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will conduct a peacekeeping operation in the Central Asian region of collective security. In the course of practical actions, patrolling the area, the organization of service at checkpoints, the actions of the CSTO CPF personnel during escort of convoys, when blocking a settlement and when performing tasks to counter rioting will be practiced.
The joint training "Indestructible Brotherhood-2019" is the final stage of the CSTO "Combat Brotherhood-2019" operational-strategic trainings. The trainings are defined by the Plan for the joint training of command and control bodies and forces of the collective security system tools of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for 2019, approved by decisions of the Council of Ministers of Defense and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
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Joint Press Center of the CSTO "Indestructible Brotherhood-2919" training
