“The first convoy with military personnel and special equipment of the combined detachment of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, which performed tasks to assist the Republic of Serbia in combating the spread of coronavirus infection, began to march from the temporary deployment station in Belgrade to the Batainitsa airfield,” RIA Novosti quoted the Ministry of Defense as saying Of Russia

It is specified that the specialists will return to their homeland on IL-76 aircraft of the military transport aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

Earlier, the head of the Serbian Ministry of Defense, Alexander Vulin, in a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu, noted the contribution of the combined detachment of the Armed Forces of Russia to the normalization of the sanitary and epidemiological situation in Serbia.