Chekist hook

The aircraft on which Vladimir Putin flew to the G20 summit in Hamburg circled the Baltic and Poland in NATO. This is evidenced by the data of the site Flightradar24.

Il-96 with the on-board number RA-96022 made a hook 500 km above the Baltic Sea through the airspace of neutral Finland and Sweden. It was on this aircraft that the Russian president arrived in Hamburg. It is noted that before that Putin has repeatedly flew over the territories of the eastern states of NATO.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the change in the route. "I am leaving the question without comment, because all issues related to the movements of the president are directly related to security. The president’s safety is carried out at the proper level, and all measures are taken that are considered appropriate," Peskov said.

At the same time, according to Peskov, the riots taking place in Hamburg did not affect the level of safety measures, since they "are already quite increased."

On the sidelines of the summit in Hamburg, Putin first met with US President Donald Trump . The meeting instead of the planned 35 minutes lasted more than two hours.

Because of this, Putin was an hour and a half late to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. With him, the Russian president discussed cooperation in the Kuril Islands "to strengthen trust between Moscow and Tokyo in order to conclude a peace treaty."

With the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Putin held negotiations on the implementation of the Turkish Stream project and the construction of Akkui NPP, as well as the Syrian settlement. Putin also met with the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jaeh.

On Saturday, at a working breakfast, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Putin discussed the observance of a truce in the east of Ukraine. “We had a good conversation, but the process is in development,” Macron said after the meeting. “The President, as always, laconically, but exhaustively brought to the interlocutors the position of the Russian Federation,” Peskov noted . “There is an understanding that it is necessary to prepare the agenda of the next telephone conversation in the Norman“ format ”.