The world's largest cargo plane An-125 "Mriya" was destroyed at Gostomel airport
The Ukrainian transport aircraft of the AN-225 "Mriya" extra-large payload was destroyed at the Gostomel airfield in the Kiev region. This is reported by TASS with reference to Ukroboronprom.
It is clarified that the world's largest aircraft burned down. The concern noted that it will take approximately three billion dollars and more than five years to recreate the car.
On the morning of February 27, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, told Lenta.ru", that units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have begun the mass use of ammunition filled with phosphorus near the Gostomel airfield near Kiev. "They use 122-millimeter shells for howitzers
D-30 and rockets for BM-21 Grad installations, still Soviet-made," he added.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special operation in Donbass. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky announced the introduction of martial law in Ukraine and the severance of diplomatic relations with the Russian side.