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Over 20 children from Donbas to arrive in Moscow for treatment

A total of 21 children aged between one month and 18 years, and also two citizens of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics aged 19 and 21 will be sent to Moscow hospitals

MOSCOW, September 21. /TASS/. A plane of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry will take to Moscow more than 20 children from the war-torn Donbas who need medical treatment, the ministry’s press service said on Monday.

A total of 21 children aged between one month and 18 years, and also two citizens of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics aged 19 and 21 will be sent to hospitals in Moscow upon their arrival.

The Il-76 military transport aircraft equipped with special medical modules has left the Ramenskoye airfield near Moscow for Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia, a spokesperson said.

The children have various diagnoses but all of them need highly-qualified medical aid, he added.

During the flight, the children will be accompanied by the doctors from the Centrospas rescue team and the all-Russian emergency medicine center Zachita of the Health Ministry.