The Ministry of Emergency Situations will send three more planes with humanitarian aid to Myanmar.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations intends to send three more planes with the necessary cargo to earthquake-stricken Myanmar. This was announced on April 6 by Dmitry Borisov, head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in the country.

"Three more flights with humanitarian aid are expected to arrive in the near future," he said in a comment to TASS.

The humanitarian operation is being carried out on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as on behalf of the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Kurenkov.

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On April 6, the press service of the ministry reported that two IL-76 aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations delivered more than 68 tons of humanitarian aid to Myanmar. The cargo includes food, basic necessities, 150 tents and over 30 generators.

On April 5, Sergey Tsvetkov, a rescuer from the Centrospas detachment of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, who is involved in the aftermath of the earthquake, shared with Izvestia that the work on dismantling rubble poses a danger to the specialists themselves, including due to the collapse of buildings at the work site. He stressed that the progress of work to eliminate the consequences of the earthquake depends on the receiving Russian rescuers.

Two earthquakes in Myanmar of magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 became known on March 28. The epicenter of one of them was located 31 km northwest of the city of Mandalay. The natural disaster in the republic killed 3,455 people, and another 4,840 were injured. The next day, on March 29, over 100 Russian rescuers arrived in Myanmar to provide assistance. So, in Mandalay, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, together with colleagues from China, pulled a woman who had been lying there for more than two days out of the rubble.