“The board landed at about 20:27 without incident,” RIA Novosti quotes Zhukovsky’s representative as saying.

Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that on December 30, 30 Russian children would return from Iraq to their homeland.

As Anna Kuznetsova, Commissioner under the President of Russia for Children's Rights, noted, Russia will make every effort to return Russian children from Iraq to the country.