Cobalt 2022 CSTO exercises end in Balykchy

The final stage of the CSTO tactical and special exercises Cobalt 2022 was held at Edelweiss training ground of the military unit 20636 in Balykchy. Press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan reported.

«Special forces units of the member states of the organization worked out training and applied operational and combat tasks to search for, block and neutralize gangs, terrorist groups, as well as block drug smuggling channels and detect caches, laboratories for the storage and production of narcotic substances and their destruction.

Summing up, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas highly praised the special forces. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, Ulan Niyazbekov, stressed that a tremendous amount of work had been done,» the statement says.

Military contingents and operational groups of Kazakhstan, Armenia, Russia, Tajikistan, Belarus, the Joint Headquarters and the CSTO Secretariat, units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Guard, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan took part in the Cobalt 2022 exercises.