A number of European countries, including NATO members, who would not mind to appeal for help to Russia in connection with the pandemic coronavirus, are not allowed to do "elders", said the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov.
According to him, some countries and under conditions of a pandemic trying "to introduce geopolitics".
"the situation with the assistance that Russia provides Italy at the Express request of the Prime Minister, we all know. Not stop some media in Italy, trying to imagine it almost as a military invasion on the territory of the Alliance", – said Lavrov in the "Big game" on the First channel.
"We know from various sources that a number of European countries, the European Union and NATO in particular, which would not mind to go the way of the Italian experience and to contact us for certain types of assistance, which we have good comparative advantage, just not allowed to do the elders," he said.
Italy again asked Russia for help
Russian military epidemiologists and specialists of radiation, chemical and biological protection of the Ministry of defense of Russia jointly with the Italian military had already carried out a full disinfection of pensions for older people in more than 71 communities in the Lombardy region. Processed 79 buildings and structures, more than 600 thousand square meters of indoor facilities and more than 110 thousand square meters of paved road.
According to the latest data, the number of victims of coronavirus COVID-19 in Italy is 25 969 people, the total number of cases of infection during the whole period of the epidemic in the country, including the deceased and recovered, reached 192 994.
