Three Russian military transport aircraft delivered thirty-six tons of humanitarian aid including food and medicines to Kabul today.
In a statement, Defence Ministry said the flights were also organized to evacuate over 300 people from Afghanistan.
The three Russian military aircraft carrying 36 tonnes of humanitarian aid reached Afghanistan’s Kabul, the Kremlin informed in a statement on Saturday.
As many as three Russian military aircraft delivered 36 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Kabul, according to a statement from the Russian ministry’s press service on Saturday.
The official statement informed, “Upon an order of Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergey Shoigu to organise a cargo haul (to Afghanistan), three planes of the Russian military and transport aviation were dispatched and they took off as soon as possible from the Chkalovsk airfield,” Russian state-owned TASS reported.
The flights that were organised on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, carrying humanitarian aid, landed at the Kabul airport to evacuate more than 300 Russians from Afghanistan.
The Kremlin is also planning to send nearly 900 Afghan nationals studying at Russian universities back to their homelands, the Russian Ambassador to Kabul, Dmitry Zhirnov, said on Thursday.
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This is the fourth evacuation group organised by Russian authorities, and the aircraft is to fly Russian and Kyrgyz citizens to Moscow.
It is worth mentioning here that since the Taliban took control of Kabul, Russia has evacuated 770 Russian, Belarusian, Kyrgyz, Armenian, Ukrainian, and Afghan nationals from the country and sent more than 70 tonnes of humanitarian cargo, including food and medication, said the defence ministry.
