This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

“Russian military experts, together with the military personnel of the RKhBZ unit for the protection of the Italian armed forces, carried out disinfection in houses for the elderly in four towns of Lombardy in the cities of Predor, Stezzano and a suburb of Bergamo,” RIA Novosti quotes the message.

In turn, the general director of the boarding house "Santa Ciara" Mariella Money thanked the Russian military for their help. She praised the fact that the military of the two countries came together to provide assistance to the victims.

She added that the employees of the boarding house themselves could not sanitize all the premises.

Earlier, Russian doctors in the Italian city of Bergamo cured eight patients with coronavirus.