The flights carried officials who arrived to ‘exchange consultations,’ wrote Russian government-owned news agency Sputnik, which quoted an unnamed source at the Russian embassy.
An airplane with the Russian flag is seen at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas, Venezuela on March 24, 2019.Two Russian air force planes landed at Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to media reports, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.
An Ilyushin IL-62 passenger jet and an Antonov AN-124 military cargo plane left for Caracas on Friday from Russian military airport Chkalovsky, stopping along the way in Syria, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24. “Russia has various contracts that are in the process of being fulfilled, contracts of a technical military character,” Sputnik quoted the source as saying.Venezuela’s Information Ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment.Russia’s Defense Ministry and Foreign Ministry did not reply to messages seeking comment. The Kremlin spokesman also did not reply to a request for comment.
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