Putin announced the preparation of joint exercises with Kazakhstan within the framework of the CSTO

“The Ministries of Foreign Affairs (of Russia and Kazakhstan. -

), the Ministries of Defense are preparing various events together, including joint exercises within the framework of the CSTO,” TASS quotes him.

Earlier, Deputy Ministers of Defense of Russia and Kazakhstan Alexander Fomin and Sultan Kamaletdinov discussed military and military-technical cooperation between the two countries.

In July, on the basis of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces in Moscow, an educational and methodological gathering was held with the heads of basic educational and methodological organizations for training military personnel for the CSTO member states and basic research organizations of the CSTO in the field of research on military cooperation problems.