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• Dylan Malyasov
A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport after flying directly from Riga, Latvia, according to flight-tracking data and Russian reports. Neither Washington nor Moscow has disclosed the purpose of the mission, which comes amid an exceptionally rare pattern of U.S. military flights to Russia since 2022.
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A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport after flying directly from Riga, Latvia, according to flight-tracking data and Russian reports. Neither Washington nor Moscow has disclosed the purpose of the mission, which comes amid an exceptionally rare pattern of U.S. military flights to Russia since 2022.
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