The length is 84 meters (276 feet) and can carry up to 250 tons (551,000 pounds) cargo with speeds of up to 850 kilometers per hour (528 mph). Cargo aircraft operated by Antonov Airlines Ukraine.
The “largest” aircraft in the world – “Hope symbols in the darkest Covid hours” – has been destroyed by Russia amid the attack, Ukraine said on Sunday for installing a strong defense – his country was attacked for five days after the launch of Moscow from “invasion full scale “. The plane was called “Mriya”, which means “(a) dream” in Ukraine. “The hopeful symbol in the darkest Covid, Mriya (Dream), the largest aircraft in the world, brings a large number of saving saving vaccines and PPE throughout the world. Now destroyed by Russian invaders in the war against Ukraine and Wide World (SIC),” Ministry of Exterior State tweeted.
“Russia might have destroyed our ‘Mriya’. But they will never be able to destroy our dreams of strong, free and democratic European countries. We will win! (Sic),” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter. The plane was destroyed outside Kyiv.
The length is 84 meters (276 feet) and can carry up to 250 tons (551,000 pounds) cargo with speeds of up to 850 kilometers per hour (528 mph). Cargo aircraft operated by Antonov Airlines Ukraine.
Ukraine said it would rebuild the plane.
“In 2020, the largest transport aircraft in the world of AN-225 Mriya began conducting humanitarian flights and provided medical supplies to fight Coronavirus in #eu. Then #ukraine defends Europe from a pandemic. Today, Russian forces have destroyed the legend of world flights.” Tweet by the Ukrainian parliament read.
It was reported to cost more than $ 3 billion (2.7 billion euros) and more than five years to recover ‘Mriya’. The country hopes to claim damage from the Russian army. “Our mission is to ensure that these costs are covered by Russia, which deliberately caused damage to Ukrainian flights,” Ukroboronprom’s state-owned weapons manufacturer was quoted by AFP.
Originally built as part of the Soviet Aeronautics program, AN-225 made his first flight in 1988. After years of not flying after the fall of the Soviet Union, the only copy of existing a test flight in 2001 in Gostomel, about 20 kilometers from Kyiv .
Ukraine was in the midst of the worst crisis in decades after Russia did a full-scale war. The Russian army said he was trying to seize strategic infrastructure, but the school and the housing environment had been hit. In four days after a constant attack, the Russian forces are currently around the capital city of Kyiv, Ukrainian forces installed a fierce battle.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Home Affairs Ukraine said 352 Ukrainian civilians had been killed during the Russian invasion, including 14 children. It was said an additional 1,684 people, including 116 children, had been injured.
