Russian military cargo planes deliver medical equipment to Italy

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Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the country's help to Italy last Saturday in light of the complicated situation caused by the pandemic.

All nine Russian Il-76 (NATO reporting name: Candid) military cargo planes carrying humanitarian assistance have successfully landed in Italy at the Pratica di Mare Air Base near Rome and started unloading their cargo. A video, published by the Russian Defense Ministry running the humanitarian mission, shows Russian servicemen offloading the KAMAZ-based mobile sanitizing devices that will help Italy in cleansing dormant COVID-19 from public places, transport, and streets.







Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio earlier announced that he would be personally greeting the arriving Russian planes along with Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini and Special Commissioner for coronavirus emergency Domenico Arcuri.

The cargo planes also brought much needed personal protection suits for doctors and medical equipment needed for treating COVID-19 infected patients. Apart from that, the Defense Ministry shared that around 100 specialists, doctors, medical personnel, and epidemiologists have also been sent to Italy to help it cope with the outbreak.

The coronavirus pandemic hit Italy hard with over 5,000 new infections reported daily. The European country also reports an abnormally high mortality rate from COVID-19 - around 10% to the 4% average see across the globe.



https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003231...s---video/

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Reported March 25:



Fifteenth Russian aircraft leaves for Italy to help fight coronavirus

"The fifteenth Il-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces took off from the Chkalovsky airfield (Moscow region) to deliver special equipment and means to fight the coronavirus to the Italian Air Force's Pratica di Mare base (30 kilometers southwest of Rome, Italy)," the ministry said.

It said that by agreement with the Italian side, the first area where Russian military experts would be involved would be the city of Bergamo (Lombardy, Italy).

"At present, the Russian military, jointly with Italian colleagues, are preparing to move special military equipment to the designated area and agreeing traffic routes," the ministry said.

According to official data made public on Tuesday evening by the head of Italy's civil defense service, Angelo Borrelli, over 69,000 confirmed cases of infection with the new type of coronavirus have been registered in the country, more than 8,000 patients have recovered, the death toll stands at 6,820.



https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003251...-ministry/