“It is Eurasia that is the locomotive of global economic development,” Putin said, his words are quoted on the Kremlin website.

He noted that it is in the Eurasian space that the mechanisms of multilateral cooperation are being formed.

Earlier, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said that security in Eastern Europe and all of Eurasia would depend on the outcome of the special operation in Ukraine and the agreements that would be reached as a result of it.