“There are still more than 85 children left ... We hope that by mid-January we will carry out more documents for 36 children. The lists have already been formed, and if everything works out, we will return them by the end of January, ”RIA Novosti quotes Kuznetsov.

Earlier it became known that the IL-76 aircraft from Iraq with 30 Russian children on board landed at the Moscow airport.

The Russian Foreign Ministry noted the high level of cooperation with Baghdad and appreciated the support of the Iraqi side in the matter of the return of Russian children, whose parents joined terrorist organizations.