MOSCOW, August 08. /ITAR-TASS/. Nine children arrived in Moscow with serious diseases and wounds on Friday. A group of medics met them at the railway station.

All children had diseases that “necessitate long continued treatment”, said Russian Deputy Minister of Healthcare Tatyana Yakovleva. Without treatment and medicines, they could die, she added.

According to Director of the Ministry’s children medical aid department Yelena Baybarina, two children are wounded and in extremely critical condition.

The Ministry was ready to accept more Ukrainian children for treatment if needed, said Yakovleva.