Russian mystery: A Russian military plane, which is used to fly senior officials and military personnel, landed yesterday evening (Sunday) at Ben Gurion Airport. An unusual flight, unlike any other in recent years. The plane, a Tupolev TU-154, took off from the Chekalovsky Russian Air Force base near Moscow, and landed in Israel around 9:00 p.m. The plane was detected for the first time in a real-time aircraft tracking application, and this morning a documentation of the plane in Israel reached the news here.
In the past, discussions between officials in the IDF and the Russian army were mainly about the presence of Russian forces in Syria. In the days before the collapse of the Assad regime, a mechanism for preventing friction (de-conflict chain) was built near the border of Israel, and later on in the Israeli activity near the Russian Hamaimim base in the Latakia area. In recent years, after Russia started a war against Ukraine, the Russian army thinned out its forces in Syria and recently began to return forces and means to a base near Latakia.
The Russians are also in strategic ties with Iran. We will recall, just five days ago, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, visited Moscow and met with President Putin when, among other things, they discussed the campaign between the US and Iran.
Spokespersons for the IDF and the Russian Embassy in Israel delivered news here: "No response."