In November, Russia will organize special flights to deliver a large consignment of humanitarian cargo to Afghanistan and take out Russian citizens on return flights. This was stated on Sunday by the Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov in an interview with the TV channel ” Russia-1 “.

“Now we are preparing the organization of special flights here [to Afghanistan], which will deliver a large consignment of humanitarian aid and food. And with the same special flights in November we will take Afghan citizens who have Russian citizenship,” he said.

“After them, the next flights – there will be several planes – will deliver Afghan students to Russia, who are enrolled in our universities on special quotas, internships. They simply do not have money for tickets. But the training must continue, and the Taliban (the radical Taliban movement) banned in the Russian Federation) they themselves support it, “Zhirnov continued.

The participants in the Moscow format meeting on Afghanistan on October 20 called for urgent humanitarian and economic assistance to the republic to rebuild the country. The parties also proposed to launch a collective initiative for the early convocation of a representative international donor conference under the auspices of the UN.