ArmInfo. According to the plan of operational and combat training of the CSTO member countries for 2018, the Armenian armed forces from October 30 to November 2 in the Russian Federation will take part in the "The Indestructible Brotherhood-2018'' joint exercise with the peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The Defense Ministry's press service told ArmInfo that for this purpose, on October 27, a peacekeeping brigade of the RA Armed Forces will leave for Sverdlovsk on a military transport plane.
To note the theme of the exercise is "Preparation and conduct of a peacekeeping operation by the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO in the Central Asian region in the territory of a non-CSTO member state according to the UN Security Council resolution". The exercise will take place at the training ground of the Sverdlovsk Training Center of the Central Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It will be attended by the Chief of the Joint Staff of the CSTO, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, and the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO, Peter Tikhonovsky.
The exercise will be attended by military contingents from six CSTO member states (Republic of Armenia, Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russian Federation and Republic of Tajikistan), operational teams of the Joint Staff and CSTO Secretariat, police (militia) forces and situations (civil defense and emergency).
It is planned that the total number of participants in the exercise will be about 1.3 thousand people, 300 units of military equipment and 20 units of various types of aircraft, including unmanned aerial vehicles. Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross are also scheduled to attend the exercise.
At the first stage of the exercise, the peacekeeping operation will be prepared by the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO (CPF CSTO). In the course of the second stage of the exercise, practical actions are planned to be carried out on the fulfillment of tasks by the units of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the course of a peacekeeping operation.
During the "Indestructible Brotherhood-2018" maneuvers, the peacekeeping contingents of the CSTO member states will work out actions to monitor compliance with the cease-fire agreement and the actions of the population in the area of responsibility, the tasks to assist in restoring peaceful life in territories affected by international terrorist attacks organizations, as well as transport control, suppression of unlawful importation and exportation of military equipment, weapons, ammunition and explosives. In cooperation with police (police) personnel, they will work out the actions of the CSTO CCM units in carrying out tasks to counter the riots.