“Three sides arrived this week, one from Russia,” RIA Novosti quoted RIA Novosti as saying.

He said that "in the coming days, a military aircraft with equipment will arrive from Russia at the direction of Vladimir Putin."

“President Putin, through the country's ambassador, sent me a message last night, in which he assured us of strategic integrated support in all areas,” the president added.

On March 27, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that Russia would continue to provide assistance to Venezuela, including in the fight against COVID-19, the first batch of test systems for diagnosing a new disease has already been delivered.

Earlier, a group of states in defense of the UN Charter, which along with Russia includes, in particular, Venezuela, Iran, China, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua and Syria, sent an appeal to the UN Secretary General Anthony Guterres with an appeal to demand the lifting of unilateral sanctions that impede the efforts of states to combat coronavirus infection.