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The Antonov-225 cargo plane, which was the world's largest plane, was destroyed by Russian forces at an airfield in Gostomel near Kyiv, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.Kuleba ...
Ukraine’s parliament said on Sunday that the aircraft has been “destroyed” by Russian forces. It said in a tweet: “In 2020, the world’s largest transport aircraft AN-225 Mriya began to ...
While two aircraft had been ordered, only a single An-225, (registration CCCP-82060, later UR-82060 [9]) was finished. It could carry ultra-heavy and oversized freight weighing up to 250,000 kg (550,000 lb) internally [3] or 200,000 kg (440,000 lb) on the upper fuselage. Cargo on the upper fuselage can be up to 70 m (230 ft) in length. [10]
The Antonov An-225, also known as "Mriya," was destroyed by Russian forces at an airfield near Kyiv in February. Ukraine says it's going to rebuild the world's biggest cargo plane, months after ...
The aircraft was destroyed by a Russian 9K33 Osa. [188] [189] [190] 25 September MiG-29 A MiG-29 piloted by Major Taras Viktorovych Redkin was reported lost. [191] [192] 29 September Su-24 An Su-24 was shot down by Russian surface-to-air missile in Kaluga, Kherson Oblast. The aircraft was recorded on video with one of its engines on fire before ...
The attack targeted cities across Ukraine, including Dnipro, Kharkiv, Konotop, Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhia, in what was possibly the largest aerial attack of the Russian invasion thus far. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said that [ 11 ] "we have never seen so many targets on our monitors at once."
A source in the Security Service of Ukraine told ABC News that Ukrainian forces are continuing to "work on enemy military facilities and enterprises that work for the Russian military-industrial ...
Western military analysts also told BBC News Russian that video taken of the crash indicated that the aircraft was shot down. [ 53 ] France Info reported that according to a French military source, the aircraft was hit by a US-made Patriot air defence battery operated by the Ukrainian army.