Planes with evacuees from Afghanistan landed in Moscow region

Il-76 of the Russian Ministry of Defense with evacuees from Afghanistan landed at the Chkalovsky airfield

, Belarus, Ukraine and Afghanistan. landed at the Chkalovsky airfield in the Moscow region. This was reported in the military department, TASS reports.

“Currently, passengers are undergoing customs and anti-wing control,” the Defense Ministry said. The IL-76 delivered humanitarian aid to the Kabul airport, and on the way back there were 205 citizens from five countries on board.

Earlier, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian Ministry of Defense, on behalf of the head of state Vladimir Putin, was evacuating from Afghanistan citizens who need to leave in the extremely turbulent environment there. Not only Russians were evacuated, but also citizens of the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

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