{"id":531564,"date":"2026-04-06T17:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=531564"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:31:04","slug":"khrenin-and-csto-secretary-general-discuss-upcoming-exercises-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/khrenin-and-csto-secretary-general-discuss-upcoming-exercises-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Khrenin and CSTO Secretary General Discuss Upcoming Exercises in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On April 6, Belarusian Defence Minister <b>Viktar Khrenin<\/b> met with CSTO Secretary General <b>Taalatbek Masadykov<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Khrenin briefed Masadykov on the current military and political situation in the Eastern European collective security region and informed him about the main operational and combat training activities planned in Belarus this year: the Nerushimoye Bratstvo-2026 command and staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces and the Barrier-2026 special exercise involving the CSTO joint formation for radiation, chemical and biological protection and medical support.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;The Belarusian side confirmed its readiness to cooperate in all areas aimed at developing the military component of the Organisation and to seek new points of contact in interaction with other international organisations, such as the CIS and the SCO,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> the Belarusian Defence Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/modmilby\/54942\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Masadykov also met in Minsk with <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> and Belarusian Security Council State Secretary <b>Alyaksandr Valfovich<\/b>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_531553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531553\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-531553\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-06_17-08-45.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-06_17-08-45.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-06_17-08-45-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-06_17-08-45-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-06_17-08-45-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-06_17-08-45-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-531553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Artsiom Berastsen, Vayar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 6, Belarusian Defence Minister Viktar Khrenin met with CSTO Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov. Khrenin briefed Masadykov on the current military and political situation in the Eastern European collective security region and informed him about the main operational and combat training activities planned in Belarus this year: the Nerushimoye Bratstvo-2026 command and staff exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":531563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d3c3ac8514a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Khrenin and CSTO Secretary General Discuss Upcoming Exercises in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143291],"tags":[143292],"class_list":["post-531564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-army","tag-minoborony"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}