The Ukrainian aircraft builder wants to resume building the second airframe that was never completed and in storage since 1994. As we reported earlier this...

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The only An-225 Mriya was destroyed during the early stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Antonov now wants to restore it but needs funds. As everybody knows by now, the only An-225 Mriya (NATO [...]

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Ukrainian sniper reportedly killed Russian Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky outside Kyiv. Reports surfacing from Ukraine say that a Ukrainian sniper has killed a high ranking Russian officer in the city of Hostomel to the North [...]

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If you needed more evidence that the world’s largest cargo plane was almost completely destroyed, here it is. Yesterday we posted an article with a video, filmed last week, on Feb. 25 or 26, at [...]

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A clip allegedly filmed last week shows what remains of the An-225 Mriya (Dream) in a hangar of Antonov Airlines airport. Last week, we reported that posts on social media claimed the only operational An-225 [...]

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The AN-225 travelled to Australia for the first time in May 2016, when it touched down in Perth, carrying a 135-tonne generator for a resources company.

Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has confirmed that the only An-225, the largest operational cargo aircraft, has been destroyed. Antonov has not confirmed it yet. There’s yet another victim of the conflict underway [...]

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Below is a link to a good reference article from BBC with maps showing the current battle lines in Ukraine, especially in the Kyiv metropolitan area with two major airports. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682 Kyiv’s Boryspil Airport (below) on the southeast side of Kyiv remains in Ukrainian control. Hostomel Airport (below), the home of Antonov, is in Russian […]

If Truth Is the First Casualty of War, It Died a Quick Death in Ukraine. No one knows his name, but he is already a legend, at least on the internet. In only a few [...]

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The largest plane in the world has been busy as ever, moving record-breaking loads and oversized cargo around…