On 3-5 June, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) “Interaction-2025”, special trainings with intelligence forces and means “Search-2025” and logistics “Echelon-2025” conducted as part of the joint operational-strategic training “Combat Brotherhood-2025”.
The CSTO Secretary General I.N. Tasmagambetov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Russian Federation Zhang Hanhui
On 27-30 May, in the city of St. Petersburg, on the basis of the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy, a training and methodological meeting was held with the heads of the CSTO basic training and research organizations to coordinate joint training of military personnel and scientific work.
On 28 May 2025 in Bishkek, Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov received the participants of the meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Organization, held with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov.
On May 28, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Bishkek under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side. The event was attended by Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the Organization's Joint Staff.
Sputnik Armenia: CSTO countries’ defense departments were provided with the information regarding the Russia’s experience on fighting against coronavirus in Italy.
The specialists discussed countermeasures to fight against the new coronavirus infection and provided the participants with the information related to the relevant experience of the Russian military service men in the Italy and Serbia.
YEREVAN, Apr 16 - Sputnik. The CSTO Spokesman's Service reports that the delegations of the defense departments of the CSTO member states have discussed the issues related to the countermeasures against the new type of coronavirus COVID-19 to prevent the further contagion.
The video-conference for the CSTO defense department representatives took place on the Thursday in the CSTO Crisis Response Center. Heads of the CSTO Military Medical Service departments conducted additional out-of-schedule consultations related to the countermeasures to fight the pandemic.
Participants of the consultations have paid special attention to the activity control issues related to the observation mode and tactics of managing serious patients.
Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, Head of the CSTO Joint Staff, noted that the experts had managed to discuss the prevention and control of a new coronavirus infection and to familiarize the consultation participants with the experience of the medical service of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, obtained through close cooperation with the civilian health of the Russian Federation, as well as during the provision of assistance by Russian troops in Italy and Serbia.
The meeting participants agreed to continue interaction in this format to analyze information on the situation related to the spread of coronavirus and to quickly exchange experience between specialists from the defense departments of the CSTO member states.
In addition to maintaining the health of service men and members of their families, the defense departments are responsible to maintain the survivability and military’s preparedness.
The meeting was also attended by representatives of the CSTO Secretariat and the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Russian specialists have cured 8 patients in Bergamo - video from the epicenter of the events
Starting on March 22 to the morning of March 25, 15 aircraft arrived only in Italy, which brought there about 100 Russian military virologists and specialists of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the field of epidemiology, eight medical and nursing teams, as well as equipment for diagnosis and disinfection. Russian specialists work in one of the most affected areas of the coronavirus pandemic in northern Italy - in the city of Bergamo and its suburbs.
Translators of the Russian Defense Ministry are constantly on duty with the medical staff of the medical and nursing teams that carry out the sanitization