He made the corresponding statement during a speech at a joint meeting of the Federation Council committees on international affairs and on defense and security.
“We, as a department, are on the cutting edge, but the scale of the task involves not only the DSCC, but this is the priority of the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and around the clock,” TASS quotes him.
According to Petrakov, these issues are dealt with 24 hours a day by everyone, from ordinary attaches at a particular embassy or consulate general to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, who "reads all telegrams, gives us instructions and requires reports on a daily basis."
Earlier, the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Air Transport Agency in a joint statement said that from March 20 to April 21 more than 170 thousand Russians returned to Russia from other countries.