Russian coronavirus aid delivery to US prompts confusion and a backlash

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5. It's a Russian PR scam. They did thd same thing to Italy and the supplies were worthless.

div class="excerpt"]When the much-anticipated Russian delivery arrived, however, the Italians discovered that the vast majority of the supplies were useless for coronavirus treatment. It was like a plot out of Occupied, the hit Norwegian television series about a mysterious takeover of Norway.

“Of those Russian supplies, 80 percent were completely useless or of little use to Italy. In other words, the delivery was more like a pretext,” an Italian government official told the leading newspaper La Stampa. According to the official, the Russian delivery contained, for example, equipment for bacteriological disinfection and a field laboratory for chemical-biological sterilization—not the ventilators and personal protective equipment so desperately needed by the Italians.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/30/russia-china-coronavirus-geopolitics/