The Kremlin Made A Special Operation Out Of Putin's Flight To Alaska

• 15.08.2025, 22:54

A "deceptive" airplane was involved.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's Il-96 airplane has landed at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Anchorage. Twenty minutes earlier, Donald Trump arrived there. After the meeting, the politicians exchanged handshakes. However, even earlier, up to 450,000 people for several hours followed the "Putin board", which in the end did not carry the Russian president. This was reported by Kremlin pool propagandist Pavel Zarubin, writes "Agency".

After the meeting, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump shook hands, exchanged a couple of remarks and left the airfield in the same car - the American president's.

Even earlier, at 9.46 (20.46 Minsk time), a Tu-214 with the flight number RA-64531 landed in Anchorage. Kommersant, Mash, Baza, RTVi and other Russian media reported that Vladimir Putin flew on it to meet Donald Trump.

About 445,000 users were sure that it was the plane of the Russian dictator, who followed the plane while it was approaching its destination, according to the Flightradar24 service.

At 9:16 p.m., however, Zarubin published a post saying that "one of the advanced planes of the Russia special flight unit has landed in Anchorage," but not Putin's plane. "We are waiting for the president's arrival in Anchorage," Zarubin clarified.

At 21.09 off the coast of Alaska, an Il-96 with the flight number RA-96025 began transmitting a signal, Flightradar24 data shows. At 9:18 p.m., the plane disappeared from radar again.

It departed St. Petersburg on Thursday. The flight history does not indicate where it landed or where it departed for Alaska.

In 2023, it was called the reserve flight of Russia's ruler. In late June, an Il-96 with the flight number RA-96025 flew to Minsk (on that day Putin was speaking there at the Eurasian Economic Forum). Before that, on June 18, the same plane flew from Moscow to St. Petersburg (on those days Putin attended the SPIEF).