MOSCOW, 25 August (BelTA) – Participants of the Vzaimodeistviye 2025 [Interaction] exercise with the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s Collective Rapid Response Forces, the special exercises Poisk 2025 [Search] and Eshelon 2025 [Echelon] will redeploy to the Republic of Belarus by 29 August, the joint press center of the exercises told BelTA.
Contingents of the troops (collective forces) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization are moving from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan to the locations where the exercises will take place according to the plan.
The exercises that combine training for various components of the CSTO troops (collective forces) will take place in the military training areas Losvido and Lepelsky in Belarus’ territory on 31 August – 6 September. The Vzaimodeistviye 2025 exercise with the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s Collective Rapid Response Forces is supposed to practice preparations for and carrying out a joint operation to resolve a crisis situation in a CSTO member state. Participants of the special exercise Poisk 2025 will practice organization and reconnaissance in the interests of the CSTO’s Collective Rapid Response Forces. Participants of the special exercise Eshelon 2025 will practice organization of materiel support.
As a peculiarity of these exercises their concepts are tightly related to the concept of the Belarusian-Russian joint strategic army exercise Zapad 2025 [West], the press center noted.
Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov told mass media the day before that the CSTO exercises are scheduled ones, do not target third countries, and are designed to improve the cohesion of command and control bodies and troops, and to maintain the readiness of the forces and assets for carrying out their missions in the interests of collective security.
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