MOSCOW, July 24. /TASS/. An Ilyushin Il-76MD plane carrying Russian soldiers who were brought back from the Kiev-controlled territory has landed near Moscow.

The Russian defense ministry said earlier that under the Russian-Ukrainian agreements reached in Istanbul on June 2, Russia had brought back a group of its servicemen from the Kiev-controlled territory and sent back Ukrainian prisoners of war in return.

The Russian soldiers will undergo medical treatment and rehabilitation at the defense ministry’s medical establishments.