Western Powers ‘Destroying Foundations of Strategic Stability’, Russian General Staff Chief Says

«Recent events testify to the West’s consistent destruction of the fundamental foundations of strategic stability and international security institutions,» Gerasimov said at the opening of Thursday’s meeting of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff (CCS) of the armed forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which is being held in Moscow.

Later during the meeting, he suggested analyzing the military-political situation in the world and on the borders of the commonwealth countries, to discuss the issues of creation and development of joint military systems in the CIS format, to consider the directions of combat training and field training of troops taking into account the experience of combat operations in modern conditions, to discuss other issues of multilateral military cooperation of mutual interest.