On 25 August 2026, a US military C-17 transport aircraft landed at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport from Riga, Latvia, in a rare occurrence. The Kremlin said it had no advance information, and the landing followed January 2025 peace-talk visits by US envoys.
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US military transport plane lands in Moscow, Kremlin says it has no information yet Reuters
Mystery swirled around a U.S. military transport aircraft that on Tuesday landed in Moscow, according to tracking data.
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Sighs. www.the-sun.com/news/1689341... AN American plane has touched down at Moscow airport on an unexplained flight from Latvia. The US military transport plane landed mysteriously at Vnukovo International Airport, west of the Russian …
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www.reuters.com/business/aer... A U.S. military transport plane landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Tuesday, data from the flight tracking service Flightradar24 showed.
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A US military C-17 transport plane has mysteriously landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport from Riga, Latvia
KYIV POST: US Military Transport Plane Lands in Moscow After Flight From Riga https://www. kyivpost.com/post/83088 A US Air Force C-17 military transport plane landed in Moscow after flying from Riga, triggering questions over the purpose of the unusual flight. The Kremlin says it has no information about the aircraft and denies any planned meetings with US officials this week. # World
CIA Director John Ratcliffe was on board the mystery US military transport aircraft that landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport, it has been reported. Kyiv has increasingly targeted online retail logistics centres, accusing them of providing support to the Russian armed forces
The last direct flight of a US-registered jet from Europe to Russia took place in January this year, carrying special envoys Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner for peace talks with Vladimir Putin.