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Russia has delivered another batch of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, RIA Novosti reports. The day before, on November 30, three military transport aircraft landed at the Kabul airport. They took off from the Chkalovsky airport in the Moscow region.
The cargo was delivered to Afghanistan Il-76 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The population of the country will receive more than 35 tons of basic necessities.
On the return flight, the planes will carry more than 380 people from Kabul on board. Among them are citizens of Russia and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Afghan students studying at Russian universities.
There is a team of military doctors, medical equipment and medicines on each plane to provide assistance to passengers on board, if necessary.
Several hundred Russians remain in the country. They are not willing to leave Afghanistan for now, since the situation there has stabilized.
Earlier, the diaspora had secured the consent of the Russian authorities to export those who wanted to leave from Afghanistan. There are about a thousand of them, including students, people with citizenship and a residence permit in Russia. Some of them have already arrived in Moscow.
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