{"id":20457,"date":"2022-02-27T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=20457"},"modified":"2022-02-27T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T21:58:31","slug":"worlds-largest-cargo-aircraft-was-destroyed-during-a-russian-attack-on-an-airfield-ukrainian-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/02\/27\/worlds-largest-cargo-aircraft-was-destroyed-during-a-russian-attack-on-an-airfield-ukrainian-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s largest cargo aircraft was destroyed during a Russian attack on an airfield, Ukrainian minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The world’s largest cargo aircraft, the An-225 Mriya, have been destroyed during a Russian attack, according to\u00a0Ukraine’s minister of foreign affairs, Dmytro Kuleba.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kuleba tweeted on Sunday: “Russia may have destroyed our ‘Mriya’. But they will never be able to destroy our dream of a strong, free, and democratic European state.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We shall prevail!” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plane was based at the Antonov Airport \u2013 also known as Hostomel Airport \u2013 according to Scottish publication The Herald<\/a>. The paper reported Thursday that the airfield was struck by missiles prior to the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the same day, Aviation24.be<\/a> published a report saying a source had confirmed the aircraft was in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insider was not able to independently verify the publication’s claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Burning hangar in the Gostomel airport near Kyiv, where the aircraft AN-225 “Mriya” was transferred<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Illia Ponomarenko, a defense reporter for the Kyiv Independent, said on Sunday that the aircraft was ruined “amid a Russian attack.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) February 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the US-funded media Radio Liberty shared a satellite picture purporting to show the aircraft in flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aircraft, which first took off in 1988<\/a>, was used to transport large amounts of humanitarian aid around the world, especially at short notice. It was also used to transfer Soviet spacecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian flights have been banned<\/a> from many European countries as part of the sanctions imposed by the EU and the US, as Insider reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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