Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called for strengthening the CSTO’s military potential during a restricted-attendance session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), BelTA reports.

"We deem it advisable to step up efforts to strengthen the CSTO’s military potential," Lukashenko said. This is why he backed the decisions submitted for consideration of the summit’s participants and concerning mobile air defense units for the sake of enabling the operation of the CSTO troops as well as the decisions on improving the Collective Aviation Forces.