Moscow: Russian military transportation aircraft on Saturday delivered the shipping of humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan and flew 200 Russia, Afghan students and others, the Defense Ministry said.
The ministry said that three IL-76 cargo planes would make a stopover in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan before flying to Moscow.
It was said that the plane brought Russians and Kyrgyzstan who wanted to leave Afghanistan, and Afghan students enroll in Russian universities.
Saturday’s mission is the latest in a series of Russian flights since August.
Previous flights have provided humanitarian cargo and evacuating a total of 770 Russians and other ex-Soviet countries.
Unlike many other countries, Russia has not evacuated its embassy in Kabul and its ambassadors has maintained regular contacts with the Taliban since they took over the Afghan capital, Kabul, in August.
Russia has worked for years to establish contact with the Taliban, even though it appointed group terror groups in 2003 and never released it from the list.
In October, Moscow held talks in Afghanistan involving Senior Taliban representatives and neighboring countries, the round of diplomacy underlined the effect of Moscow in Central Asia.
Russian military aircraft evacuated 200 people from Afghanistan
