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Video captured a U.S. military transport plane coming in for a landing Tuesday at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, in a flight that the Kremlin reportedly claimed it had no information about.
Data from the website Flightradar24 showed that the Boeing C-17A Globemaster III left Joint Base Andrews in Maryland early Sunday afternoon on a flight to Riga, Latvia. The aircraft then traveled from Riga to Moscow, Russia on Wednesday morning.
The last time a U.S.-registered jet made a direct flight to Russia from Europe was in January when special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, visited Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine, according to Reuters.
A Department of War spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday, “We have nothing to provide on this subject.” Fox News Digital also has reached out to the White House and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for comment.
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A U.S. military transport plane approaches Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2026, in this screen grab taken from a social media video. (Reuters)
The Kremlin said it had no information about the latest flight, Reuters reported.
Yury Ushakov, an aide to Putin, said following January’s meeting with Witkoff and Kushner that “our counterparts arrived from Davos after taking part in a series of events together with President Donald Trump, including those concerning the Ukraine settlement.”
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum at the Kremlin in Moscow on Jan. 22, 2026. (Alexander Kazakov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
“They offered what can be called their first-hand accounts of these events and shared their impressions, as well as their latest thoughts and assessments regarding the meeting between the President of the United States and [Ukraine President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy in Davos” during the World Economic Forum, he added.
A Boeing C-17 Globemaster III plane is seen departing Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“Overall, I can say that the focus of the meeting between the President of Russia and US representatives was to obtain information resulting from the contacts the United States had with the Ukrainians and Europeans in order to define further steps between our two countries,” Ushakov also said.
