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Here's how Volodymyr Zelensky is traveling to US in first visit since war began
The picture shows a C40-B, but not the C-40B used for this flight.
Here’s how Volodymyr Zelensky is traveling to US in first visit since war began
BY VALIUS VENCKUNAS
2022-12-21
2 MINUTE READ
w_p_o / Shutterstock.com
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is to visit the United Staes on December 21, 2022, a move that has come as a surprise for many. ... The visit, Zelensky’s first foreign visit since Russia invaded Ukraine, was announced on the morning of December 21, via the Ukrainian president’s Twitter account, which revealed that he was already on his way to the US.
Zelensky was still in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in the evening of December 20, a site which has seen some of the fiercest battles during the war. ... Zelensky was allegedly already on the plane in the early morning the next day, with his speech at the US Congress scheduled for the afternoon the same day. ... But how is that possible?
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However, approximately an hour after the tweet was published, at 8:15 CET (7:15 GMT), a US government Boeing C-40B took off from Poland’s Rzeszow airport (RZE). ... The city, located not far from the border with Ukraine, has become an important logistical hub since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. With its rail and road links to Ukraine, it remains the final stop before entering the country for foreign delegations and military aid.
The flight headed West through Polish, German and British airspaces, and was immediately associated with Zelensky’s visit. It briefly became the most-tracked flight on the popular flight tracking service Flightradar24. ... Tracking services lost sight of the flight over the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 300 kilometers (180 miles) off the Scottish coast, where the coverage of ADSB receivers, feeding data to the services, ended. ... There is a good chance the Special Air Mission 910 (SAM910) is indeed the flight which carried Zelensky from Rzesow to Washington.
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The C-40B, registration 01-0041, which conducts the flight SAM910, was delivered to the US Air Force in 2005.
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BY VALIUS VENCKUNAS
2022-12-21
2 MINUTE READ
w_p_o / Shutterstock.com
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is to visit the United Staes on December 21, 2022, a move that has come as a surprise for many. ... The visit, Zelensky’s first foreign visit since Russia invaded Ukraine, was announced on the morning of December 21, via the Ukrainian president’s Twitter account, which revealed that he was already on his way to the US.
Zelensky was still in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in the evening of December 20, a site which has seen some of the fiercest battles during the war. ... Zelensky was allegedly already on the plane in the early morning the next day, with his speech at the US Congress scheduled for the afternoon the same day. ... But how is that possible?
{snip}
However, approximately an hour after the tweet was published, at 8:15 CET (7:15 GMT), a US government Boeing C-40B took off from Poland’s Rzeszow airport (RZE). ... The city, located not far from the border with Ukraine, has become an important logistical hub since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. With its rail and road links to Ukraine, it remains the final stop before entering the country for foreign delegations and military aid.
The flight headed West through Polish, German and British airspaces, and was immediately associated with Zelensky’s visit. It briefly became the most-tracked flight on the popular flight tracking service Flightradar24. ... Tracking services lost sight of the flight over the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 300 kilometers (180 miles) off the Scottish coast, where the coverage of ADSB receivers, feeding data to the services, ended. ... There is a good chance the Special Air Mission 910 (SAM910) is indeed the flight which carried Zelensky from Rzesow to Washington.
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The C-40B, registration 01-0041, which conducts the flight SAM910, was delivered to the US Air Force in 2005.
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