What to know

• The last direct flight of a US-registered jet from Europe to Russia took place in January this year, carrying special envoys Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner for peace talks with Vladimir Putin.S1
• The large Boeing Globemaster with the U.S. registered tail number 07-7181 ‌had flown direct from Riga, in Latvia, and ‌landed in MoscowS2
• A US military C-17 transport plane has mysteriously landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport from Riga, LatviaS3
• The Kremlin said it had no information on the plane. The aircraft had arrived in Riga on August 23 from the U.S. Camp Springs airbase near Washington DC, data from Flightradar24 showed.S4
• A US Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport on Tuesday, August 25, after flying directly from Riga, Latvia, in a highly unusual flight that has triggered speculation over its purpose.Flight-tracking data showed t...S5