🇷🇺🇮🇱 A Russian Ministry of Defense plane touched down at Ben Gurion Airport, although the reason for the visit is still unclear.
The Tu-154M, registered RA-85042 and operated by the 223rd Aviation Unit, arrived Sunday evening around 7:01 p.m. Flight data shows it departed from Cheklovsky Air Base, the aircraft is part of a unit under US sanctions.
Currently, neither the passengers nor the delegation are known.
The claims about the evacuation of Russian diplomats and their families from Israel are unconfirmed, as no current source links this flight to such an operation.
The IDF refused to comment, while the Russian Embassy and the Foreign Ministry offered no explanations.
The landing seems unusual, but there is no evidence that it involved a diplomatic evacuation.