The member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation are not willing to take part in the war against Ukraine.
It was informed by the Defense Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
The CSTO is a military and political international organization, the members of which are belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, russia, and Tajikistan.
“Despite the insistence of the rf, the CSTO members are not willing to approve the decision on holding peacekeeping operations outside the territories of their countries. Including the territory of the so-called lnr and dnr,” the message has it.
Instead, the CSTO members instead can consider the possibility of the limited deployment of the national forces on the territory of the rf or belarus. But only after the official statement about Ukraine’s invasion of their territory.
In particular, on 15 April, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan Ruslan Zhaksilikov said that Kazakhstan did not get any request to send the national forces to the territory of Ukraine. He confirmed that at the last meeting of the military committee of the CSTO the issue of the participation in the military conflict on the territory of Ukraine was not on the agenda.
“Currently, all the CSTO member states maintain neutrality in the issue of russian invasion. None of them has recognized the annexation of Crimea and independence of “dnr/lnr”,” the message has it.
At the beginning of April, Oleksandr Lukashenko considering himself to be the president of belarus stated that he carried out special operation on the territory of Ukraine “to liberate belarussians”.