Putin sends plane to Washington DC to fly ‘key diplomats’ back to Moscow just days after Wagner’s attempted coup – as State Dept tells Russia it expects same ‘courtesy’ for American officials
- A Russian government plane left Moscow on Tuesday at 10:05am and arrived at Washington Dulles airport at 2:08pm, avoiding EU airspace
- The State Department said the plane was sent ‘to transport to Russia those Russian diplomats whose assignments have ended’
- The returning diplomats will be able to brief their bosses in Moscow about US thinking on the shocking and surreal mutiny by the Wagner group this weekend