Overview
- Leaders signed a summit declaration and 15 documents, including an Anti-Drug Strategy for 2026–2030 and a military cooperation plan through the end of the decade.
- President Vladimir Putin proposed a large-scale program to equip CSTO collective forces with modern Russian weapons proven in real combat.
- Russia will hold the CSTO presidency in 2026 with priorities that include integrating member defense industries, sharing research, offering preferential arms terms, and improving command-and-control.
- The final declaration voiced concern over foreign military infrastructure approaching CSTO borders and called for preventing an arms race in space with a legally binding ban on space-based weapons.
- The package also amends management of CSTO collective forces and backs measures on information outreach, anti-drug operations, and countering illegal migration.