“Some of the cars will be sent to medical institutions and social services to work on the situation with the coronavirus in addition to the previously allocated fleet,” RIA Novosti reports.

As noted, the remaining cars will replace used cars from the government’s fleet.

On May 19, media reported that a parking lot of new Toyota Camry cars was discovered in the Chelyabinsk Forest.

The regional government later explained that the place where they are located is not a forest, but we are talking about the territory belonging to the Chelyabinsk Oblast Administration. 

According to local authorities, new cars were purchased for the SCO and BRICS summits in 2020 to replace an outdated fleet.