From June 24 to 26, second staff talks were held in the Republic of Kazakhstan on the organization and conduct of the joint exercise “Rubezh-2026” with units of the Central Asian Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF).
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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.
Contingents of the Central Asian region's Collective Rapid Deployment Forces are heading to the Republic of Tajikistan to participate in the joint training “Rubezh-2022”
10.10.2022
From October 10 to 21, 2022, joint training "Rubezh-2022" with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region is held on the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan.
The subject of the training is "Preparation and conduct of combat operations by the CRDF CAR on destroying illegal armed groups invading the territory of a CSTO member state”.
The active phase of the training will take place at the “Harbmaidon” training range from 17 to 21 October.
Military contingents of the member states of the Central Asian region of the CSTO, task forces of the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat will take part in the training.
It is planned that the total number of training participants in the Republic of Tajikistan will be about 1,000 people and more than 300 units of military and special equipment, including aircraft, helicopters and strike drones.
The CSTO member states of the Central Asian region of collective security include in national formations (contingents) of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces military formations, units and subunits of the armed forces and other troops, formations and bodies in which military service is stipulated, equipped with highly mobile military equipment, interoperable weapons and communication systems, as well as combat, logistics and technical support units and groups of civil specialists.
The main tasks of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region of collective security are to participate in repelling external military aggression and conducting joint counterterrorist operations.
These tasks are carried out in the form of general and special combat operations of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region of collective security according to a unified concept and plan.
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Joint press center of the CSTO trainings
