Ukraine confirms that Russian bombardment destroyed the Antonov Mriya, the largest plane in the world

The restoration of the largest plane in the world, the Mriya (Dream), which was destroyed in a Russian attack, will take more than five years, official sources from the Ukraine.

“According to preliminary estimates, (the restoration of the aircraft) will cost about 3,000 million dollars and will take more than five years”the state consortium wrote on Facebook Ukroboronprom.

The company confirmed that the An-225 Mriya was destroyed during a Russian bombing raid on Hostomel airportin the vicinity of Kyiv.

“Russia may have destroyed our mriyabut they can never destroy our dream of a strong, free and democratic European state”Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba wrote on Twitter.

Ukroboronpromthe state company of the country’s industrial-military arsenal, specified that it will apply all efforts so that the restoration costs are borne by the “aggressor country.”

The plane, which has been burned after an attack on the Hostomel airportarrived in Ukraine from Denmark on February 5 and since then had not left the airfield, the scene of heavy clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces in recent days.

The destroyed aircraft, which made its first flight in 1988, had six engines capable of reaching 850 kilometers per hour, climbing up to 12,000 meters and flying nonstop distances of up to 15,400 kilometers.

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