🇷🇺⚡Putin: CSTO leaders will adopt a joint statement on military cooperation, incl. taking into account the results of the peacekeeping operation in Kazakhstan.
▪️ A whole series of joint military exercises of the CSTO is planned for the fall, their number will increase.
▪️ Putin also proposed to grant the CIS observer status with the CSTO.
▪️Lukashenko to the CSTO leaders: Without the speedy rallying of our countries, without strengthening political, economic, military ties, we may not exist tomorrow. If we had immediately acted as a united front, there would not have been these hellish sanctions, Russia should not fight the attempt to expand NATO alone. To strengthen the CSTO, it is necessary to strengthen political interaction, increase the mechanism of consultations: positions must be united.