During the “Conduct of combat operations” stage, two main training objectives are being practiced: the occupation by the national contingents of the CRDF CAR of the area of responsibility and the destruction of illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
The active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” has begun at the Koktal training range in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the exercise, the participating forces are practicing the preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
On September 11, 2026, a round table entitled “Kazakhstan–Central Asia–Greater Eurasia: resilience and security amid new challenges” was held at the Center for Social Conservative Policy. The event was organized by the CSTO Secretariat jointly with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Center for Social Conservative Policy (CSCP).
The event was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, Director of the ICCA RAS Kirill Babaev, members of the CSTO Permanent Council and representatives of the academic and expert communities of the member states. The discussion was moderated by Yuri Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
Military contingents of the Armed Forces of the CSTO member states practiced actions in conditions of sabotage on the railroad in the course of trainings "Echelon-2022" in Kazakhstan
05.10.2022
In the course of the "Echelon-2022" training, military contingents of the CSTO Collective Forces practiced actions under conditions of a railroad sabotage during the transportation of troops. According to the plan of the training, an act of sabotage was carried out on the way of a military train, which resulted in the destruction of the railway bed and ignition of military equipment.
To eliminate the fire, the army aviation of the Air Force of the Republic of Kazakhstan, units of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as well as a fire train of the national company "Kazakhstan Railways" were involved.
In addition, in order to ensure further movement of the train, military equipment was unloaded on an unequipped section of terrain. "It was carried out with the use of road trawls, a complex platform vehicle S-05 and with the help of a 150-ton railway crane installed on the recovery train. The military equipment removed from the echelon bypassed the destroyed area and was loaded onto the rolling stock, which, after all measures had been taken, continued on its way to its destination.
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Joint Press Center of the CSTO trainings
