Putin and Medvedev aircraft flew from Moscow to St. Petersburg-Flightradar

A few minutes after take -off, the aircraft disappeared from the radars, probably switched off transponders for secrecy. The press services assure that Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev did not leave Moscow and work in their places. The Il-96-300U aircraft of the special flight detachment "Russia", which is subordinated to the Department of Affairs of Russian President Vladimir Putin, June 24 flew from Moscow and disappeared. This is evidenced by the data of the Flightradar service.

IL-96-300PU with the RA-96022 registration number flew from the Dnuba-2 airport, where it is usually based, at 14:16 Kiev time and headed northwest towards St. Petersburg. In about 20 minutes the plane disappeared from the radars, at an altitude of about 4 km. Probably, pilots have turned off transponders - devices that allow you to track the location. It happened not far from the village of Moshkino of the Tver region. Some Russian media suggested that Vladimir Putin had gone to St.

Petersburg against the background of promotion of the Wagner PEC forces to Moscow. However, Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he was in the Kremlin, RBC reports. The media also reports that the first deputy chairman of the military-industrial commission Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and other business jets flew from the Moscow Airport in the northwestern direction. Secretariat Dmitry Medvedev informed the TASS agency as if he were in the workplace with his assistants.

The Rossia Special Flight Detachment Aviation Park provides planes for the transportation of the President and other high -ranking Russian officials. Volodymyr Putin uses RA-96022 boards, for example, in 2018, the head of state flew to Helsinki to meet with a colleague with the US Donald Trump. In 2022, Vladimir Putin flew to Minsk, accompanied by a fighter to make a visit to the head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

On June 24, Vladimir Putin made an emergency statement on the actions of the Wagner PEC. According to him, Russian mercenaries staged an armed rebellion under the guidance of a traitor Yevgeny Prigogin. He ordered to neutralize all the organizers of the uprising. Later, information emerged that the Kremlin tried to negotiate with Yevgeny Prigogin and to appease him.