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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

US military transport plane lands in Moscow, Kremlin says it has no information yet

Moscow: A ​U.S. 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 ‌U.S. ⁠registered tail number ⁠07-7181 had flown direct from Riga, ​in Latvia, and landed in Moscow at around 0700 ​GMT.

Reuters was unable to verify whether it carried any cargo or passengers.

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The Kremlin said ​it had no ⁠information on ‌the plane.

The aircraft had ​arrived in ​Riga on August 23 ⁠from the U.S. Camp Springs airbase near Washington ​DC, data from Flightradar24 showed.

The last ​direct flight of a U.S. 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.

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The Kremlin said last ​week ​that there ⁠was no information yet on another visit to Moscow by Kushner and Witkoff, as talks between ​the U.S. and Russia on Ukraine have largely stalled amid the war in Iran.

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