Russian ‘military aircrafts’ land in Venezuela

Two Russian air force planes carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops landed at Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday, reports said. It was showed in a flight-tracking website that two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for Caracas on Friday. A separate flight-tracking website showed that one plane left Caracas on Sunday.

Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported that the planes were sent to “fulfil technical military contracts”. On Twitter, a Venezuelan journalist wrote that he saw about 100 troops and 35 tonnes of equipment offloaded from the planes.

A passenger jet, Ilyushin IL-62 and a military cargo plane Antonov AN-124 left for Caracas on Friday from Russian military airport Chkalovsky. The flight-tracking website Flightradar24 found out that the air crafts stopped along the way in Syria.

As per reports, Sputnik quoted “Russia has various contracts that are in the process of being fulfilled, contracts of a technical military character”.

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