“The seventh IL-76 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces arrived at the Chkalovsky airfield 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 Italian Republic,” the Russian Ministry of Defense reports to TASS.
The defense department said that the arrivals had passed mandatory sanitary and epidemiological measures.
Earlier, Italian Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini over the phone thanked his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu for help from Russia in the fight against the spread of coronavirus infection.