Russia's Kremlin says there is no meeting planned with the US admin at this moment; says there is no information about US military plane that landed in Moscow
Kremlin denials of this kind fit a familiar pattern in Russia-US backchannel episodes: contact is denied until it is disclosed, and the sequencing of denial, acknowledgment, and readout has historically carried more signal than the denial itself. The specific tell here is the reference to a US military aircraft on the ground in Moscow, since unannounced state or military flights in periods of tension have in past episodes preceded prisoner exchanges, de-escalatory talks, or envoy-level visits rather than routine logistics. The distinction worth drawing is between a genuine non-event and contact being actively concealed; the Kremlin's track record on both counts is poor enough that outright denials are typically discounted rather than taken at face value. What matters next is flight-tracking confirmation or refutation, any parallel commentary from Washington, and whether the absence of a planned meeting is later quietly revised. As a standalone denial, the note is informational only; the market-relevant variants have historically been the ones that get walked back.