The cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection have been recorded in Russia-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov has said.

“Foreign intelligence services and our other units have information that there are already registered cases of expansion of the coronavirus in the occupied part of Donetsk and Luhansk region. Moreover, we understand where this case came from. Unfortunately, the woman was sick. She came back through Moscow from China, rode in a minibus from Moscow, and that’s how it all happened there,” Danilov said at a briefing on March 13.