“June 19 this year export flight No. AFL2307 took place on the route Frankfurt am Main - St. Petersburg - Moscow of the airline Aeroflot - Russian Airlines. Onboard 336 passengers, including 17 Russians who flew in from Australia, Bahrain, Canada and other countries and took the opportunity to make a transplant in Frankfurt, ”the Facebook statement said.
The diplomatic mission noted that the logistics for the export of Russians from countries with which Russia did not previously have direct flights was developed by the operation team to prevent the import and spread of coronavirus infection in close coordination with the embassy in Germany, the Consulate General in Frankfurt, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Ministry of Communications and the Federal Air Transport Agency.
There, they also thanked all involved German departments for their assistance.
As RIA Novosti clarifies with reference to the data on the online scoreboard at Pulkovo Airport, the plane landed in St. Petersburg at 22:06 Moscow time. 130 people returned to Petersburg.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that since the beginning of March, more than 240 thousand Russians have returned to their homeland.