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Second Russian Aircraft Carrying Humanitarian Aid to India Departs

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The second aircraft of the Russian Emergencies Ministry carrying humanitarian aid to India took off from Zhukovsky International Airport near Moscow, the airport's spokesperson told Sputnik on Wednesday.

The first aircraft departed at 17:00 Moscow time (14:00 GMT).

"The second plane belonging to the Emergencies Ministry with humanitarian aid for India on board departed from the Zhukovsky airport at 19:55," the spokesperson said.

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India has been struggling with a new wave of the pandemic since mid-February, continually setting daily records in new cases, while the official death toll topped 200,000 on Wednesday.

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