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


A U.S. military transport plane approaches Moscow, Russia, August 25, 2026, in this screen grab taken from a social media video. Social Media/via REUTERS

MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) - ⁠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.

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.

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.

(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov and ​Dmitry Antonov; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; editing by Vladimir Soldatkin and Alex Richardson)

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