US EditionThe Third Russian Special Flight Took Off From Moscow to Alaska: EADaily
The Russian jet, linked to a 2016 cocaine smuggling case involving nearly 400 kilograms, arrived ahead of talks to resolve the Ukraine conflict, officials said.
- Ahead of Friday’s summit, a Russian Il-96 with tail number RA-96023 departed Vnukovo Airport for Anchorage around 8 a.m., according to flight-tracking data.
- Years ago, Argentine authorities seized nearly 400 kilograms of cocaine from the Russian embassy school in Buenos Aires, leading to convictions in Moscow, TASS reported.
- The flight left Vnukovo Airport at 17.28 Moscow time and landed at Ted Stevens Anchorage Airport around 17.48 Moscow time, according to Flightradar24.
- TASS reported the aircraft carried senior Russian officials including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov, Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, and Kirill Dmitriev.
- On August 15, 2025, Russian and US officials will meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson for Ukraine talks, described by President Trump as a `feel-out` meeting to gauge Putin’s seriousness.
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The third Russian special flight took off from Moscow to Alaska: EADaily
EADaily, August 14th, 2025. Another special board of the Russia detachment flew from Moscow to Anchorage, Alaska, where Russian-American negotiations on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict will be held on August 15. This is evidenced by the data of the Flightradar24 service.
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A Russian government aircraft with a scandalous past flew from Moscow to Alaska on Thursday morning, ahead of Friday’s high-stakes summit between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The Il-96 with tail number RA-96023 departed Vnukovo Airport around 8 a.m., Moscow time, bound for Anchorage. The same aircraft was central to a cocaine smuggling scandal that embarrassed the Kremlin nearly a decade ago. In December 2016, Argent…
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A Russian government jet with a scandal in its past departed Moscow for Alaska on Thursday morning, ahead of Friday’s high-stakes summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, according to Russian media, The Moscow Times on August 14. The Moscow Times, citing flight-tracking service Flightradar24, stated that the Ilyushin Il-96—tail number RA-96023—took off from Vnukovo Airport a…
On Thursday morning, a Russian government plane took off from Moscow Airport, bound for Alaska. It's unclear who was on board the plane, registration number RA-96023, but it is known that the plane is linked to the so-called "cocaine scandal."
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