Foreign Ministry named the number of Russians returning from other countries

This was announced during the briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

"Over the past week, they (export flights. - RT ) were used by over 4 thousand people, the total number of those who returned exceeded 290 thousand people," she said.

The representative of the foreign policy department noted that, despite the opening of a number of destinations for regular flights, export flights "remain more than in demand."

Earlier, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 7 thousand Russians have returned to their homeland on export flights from the United States.