The state plane from Moscow flies to Washington. Russia reveals the reason

2023-06-27 23:46:11Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The state plane from Moscow flies to Washington. Russia reveals the reason
The state plane from Moscow flies to Washington

The Ilyushin II-96-300, a large four-engine Russian state aircraft of the Special Air Squadron, took off today from Vnukovo, Moscow at 10:05 local time for the US.

The plane flew north to avoid entering Finnish airspace and then turned west into the Atlantic Ocean.

At 20:08 Albanian time, he landed, after more than eleven hours of flight in Washington, where no one was waiting for him.

The route is shown on all flight trackers and the aircraft is model RA-96918.

To provide details on this unexpected flight at a time of internal conflicts for Putin with the Wagner group and when Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, spoke.

She has ruled out any contact or confidential negotiations with the US administration.

"The flight was made to bring home three diplomats from Moscow who have been ordered by the State Department to leave the US. It is not about deportations, but about a normal expiration of the residence visas of the three diplomats," she said.


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