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.
A meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the logistical support of the CSTO Collective Forces was held
15.11.2022
On November 15 this year, a meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the logistical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) was held via videoconferencing.
Under the general supervision of the Chairman of the Working Group - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, the meeting was attended by representatives of the leadership of defense agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, officials from the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat.
In the course of the meeting the following issues were considered: the status of internal approval of the draft Regulation on Stockpiles of Material Resources for Support of Formations of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) and its readiness for consideration by the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of the CSTO Secretaries of Security Councils; the status of development and readiness to submit for internal approval the draft Recommendations on the procedure for mutual settlement for transferred material resources between the contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), and the creation on the territories of the CSTO member states of the necessary reserves of material resources for the deployment of groups of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
The main areas of cooperation in the field of military science on improving the system of logistical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), as well as the results of a special trainings with the forces and means of logistical support of the CSTO CRRF "Echelon-2022" held in October 2022 in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, were discussed.
The next meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the issues of logistical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) is scheduled to take place in the Republic of Belarus in 2023.
