🇷🇺🇺🇸 An Ilyushin Il-96-300 aircraft (RA-96023) of the Presidential Russian Special Flight Squadron (RSD) with callsign RSD381 is currently en route from Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport (VKO) to US Air Force Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, likely transporting staff and diplomats ahead of the Friday meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian state media released footage from inside the Ilyushin Il-96-300 aircraft (RA-96023) prior to its departure from Vnukovo International Airport (VKO), Moscow.

As noted before, the plane was carrying journalists and support staff ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s arrival in Anchorage, Alaska, for the upcoming meeting with US President Donald Trump.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian Navy intelligence intercepted radio communication indicating that the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) lost contact with a Su-30SM fighter jet operating southeast of Snake Island in the Black Sea.

Russian forces have launched a search and rescue operation, with debris spotted on the sea surface, though the pilots have not yet been located.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Two Ilyushin Il-96-300PU aircraft of the Presidential Russian Special Flight Squadron, with callsigns RSD411 (RA-96022) departing from St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport and RSD311 (RA-96024) departing from Vnukovo International Airport (VKO), have taken off and are most likely en route to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska.

A third aircraft, an Ilyushin Il-96-300 with callsign RSD381 that landed in Anchorage earlier today, diverted to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport (Elizovo Airport) in Kamchatka, Far Eastern Russia, likely to pick up Russian President Vladimir Putin for his flight to Anchorage.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump’s Team en route to Anchorage, Alaska.

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🇮🇱🇱🇧 The Israel Air Force conducted multiple airstrikes targeting Hezbollah underground tunnels and infrastructure in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, as well as several locations in southern Lebanon, resulting in multiple explosions.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 When asked shortly before departing for Alaska aboard Air Force One whether territorial swaps would be discussed in the upcoming negotiations with Russia, US President Donald Trump stated that the issue will be addressed but added that the decision rests with Ukraine, saying that he is not negotiating on Ukraine’s behalf but working to bring the parties to the table.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇮🇷 Debris from Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) UAVs, reportedly downed by Russian Electronic Warfare (EW), struck the sanctioned Port Olya 4 vessel carrying components for Shahed-136/238 UAVs and ammunition from Iran in Astrakhan Oblast’s Port of Olya, ≈810 km from the front line in the Caspian Sea.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 A Tupolev Tu-214PU communications and control aircraft of the Russian Presidential Special Flight Squadron (RSD), with callsign RSD539 and registration RA-64531, has just departed Magadan Sokol Airport in Russia’s Far East.

The aircraft is en route to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, potentially indicating the departure of Russian President Vladimir Putin for his scheduled meeting with US President Donald Trump.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 It arrives https://vxtwitter.com/sentdefender/status/1956408517256208893?s=46

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Four F-22 “Raptor” fighter jets from the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), assigned to the 11th Air Force’s 3rd Operations Group of the 3rd Wing and 90th/525th Fighter Squadron positioned at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, with a red carpet between them, in preparation to welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his meeting with President Donald Trump.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 The transponders of the Ilyushin Il-96-300PU from the Russian Presidential Fleet “Rossiya” have been activated, confirming that the aircraft carrying President Vladimir Putin is now approaching Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, and contradicting earlier reports suggesting that Putin would arrive aboard the Tupolev Tu-214PU C2 aircraft.

🇺🇸 Air Force One carrying US President Trump has just landed in Anchorage and it seems that the Raptors will welcome him too.