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A US military transport plane approaches Moscow, Russia, 25 August 2026. Photo: Reuters
A US military transport plane landed at Moscow's Vnukovo
airport on Tuesday, data from the flight tracking service Flightradar24 showed.
The large Boeing Globemaster with the US registered tail
number 07-7181 had flown directly from Riga, in Latvia, and landed in Moscow at
around 0700 GMT.
Reuters was unable to verify whether it carried any cargo or
passengers.
The Kremlin said it had no information on the plane.
The aircraft had arrived in Riga on 23 August from the US
Camp Springs airbase near Washington DC, data from Flightradar24 showed.
The last direct flight of a US registered jet to Russia from
Europe took place in January this year, carrying special envoys Steven Witkoff
and Jared Kushner for peace talks with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine.
The Kremlin said last week that there was no information yet
on another visit to Moscow by Kushner and Witkoff, as talks between the US and
Russia on Ukraine have largely stalled amid the war in Iran.