PRETORIA, October 31. /TASS/. An Antonov-124-100 Ruslan heavy transport aircraft of Russia’s Volga-Dnepr company delivered to West Africa aid cargo for fighting the Ebola outbreak there.

The cargo of five 18-tonne containers includes protective and other equipment, the aircraft’s senior engineer, Nail Basyrov, told TASS on the telephone from Abidjan on Friday.

The plane stopped at the continent’s five countries - the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) where the Ebola outbreak’s virus strain is different from that in West Africa, Ghana (Accra) where a logistics center for cargo delivered to the countries suffering from the virus outbreak is situated, as well as Mali (Bamako), Guinea-Bissau (Bissau) and the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire. Every country unloaded one container. The aid is delivered by the Volga-Dnepr Company in compliance with recommendations from the UN Security Council.

Though the plane did not land in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea, the crew took protective measures.