It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

"The sixth IL-76 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces arrived at the Chkalovsky airfield (Moscow region) with military personnel and special military equipment from the combined detachment of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which performed tasks to assist in the fight against coronavirus infection in the territory of the Italian Republic," message.

The defense department said that the arrivals had passed thermometry and mandatory sanitary and epidemiological measures.

Earlier it became known that in the suburbs sat the fifth plane with the Russian military arriving from Italy.