He announced this at a meeting with the head of the airline, Vitaly Savelyev.

“I have signed an order to provide the company with state guarantees for loans in the amount of 70 billion rubles,” RIA Novosti quoted Mishustin as saying.

Savelyev noted that the coronavirus infection pandemic has become a difficult period for the company, but the situation is recovering.

Earlier it was reported that the passenger flow of Russian airlines tripled in June compared with May and reached 2.84 million people.