Item 1 of 2 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 <\/p>\n
[1\/2]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 Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A U.S. military transport plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport \u200bon Tuesday, data from the flight \u200ctracking service Flightradar24 showed.<\/p>\n The large Boeing Globemaster with the U.S. registered tail number 07-7181 had flown \u200bdirect from Riga, in Latvia, and \u200blanded in Moscow at around 0700 \u2060GMT.<\/p>\n Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n Reuters was unable to verify whether it \u200bcarried any cargo or passengers.<\/p>\n The Kremlin said \u200bit had no information on the plane.<\/p>\n The aircraft had arrived in Riga on August 23 from the \u200bU.S. Camp Springs airbase near Washington DC, \u200bdata from Flightradar24 showed.<\/p>\n The last direct flight of a U.S. \u200cregistered \u2060jet to Russia from Europe took place in January this year, carrying special envoys Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner for peace \u200btalks with \u200bVladimir Putin \u2060on Ukraine.<\/p>\n The Kremlin said last week that there was no information yet \u200bon another visit to Moscow \u200bby \u2060Kushner and Witkoff, as talks between the U.S. and Russia on Ukraine have largely stalled \u2060amid \u200bthe war in Iran.<\/p>\n Reporting \u200bby Gleb Stolyarov and Dmitry Antonov; Writing by Lucy \u200bPapachristou; editing by Vladimir Soldatkin and Alex Richardson<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n