The ‘Dream’ is dead: Air cargo wonder AN-225 destroyed in Ukraine

[Hamartia Antidote]

The ‘Dream’ is dead: Air cargo wonder destroyed in Ukraine

Ukrainian officials vow to rebuild the world’s largest commercial cargo plane, which was capable of carrying prodigious loads.

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The largest commercial cargo plane has been destroyed by Russian soldiers during fighting at an airport outside Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian government’s official Twitter account.

The Antonov AN-225, nicknamed Mriya, or “Dream,” had six engines, could carry 225 tons of cargo and consumed about 20 tons of fuel per hour of flight.

“Russia may have destroyed our ‘Mriya.’. But they will never be able to destroy our dream of a strong, free and democratic European state. We shall prevail!” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kulebo wrote on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497947370008547332

 

[Beast]

Why they never show the photo of the destroy plane? I doubt it is destroyed. It could have flown out and landed in EU since it's valuable and can still make money from it.

 

[TruthSeeker]

The Russian leaders are among the most spiteful, jealous people on the planet. They kill this plane and they kill Ukrainian babies with equal disdain.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Why they never show the photo of the destroy plane? I doubt it is destroyed. It could have flown out and landed in EU since it's valuable and can still make money from it.

That's its hangar and there is obviously a very large plane burning in it.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

The Russian leaders are among the most spiteful, jealous people on the planet. They kill this plane and they kill Ukrainian babies with equal disdain.

Ukrainian Women, kids, babies and the old have left the war zone. Male Ukrainians between 18 to 50 years are unable to leave the war zone as Ukrainian president has passed a decree to keep them as hostages.

 

[Imran Khan]

Sad if true . I was fan of that plane.wars sucks

 

[Sineva]

You`d have thought that considering the amount of warnings that they were getting,that the ukranians would`ve had enough fvcking brain cells to have flown it out of the country to a nice safe friendly third party nation before the russian invasion kicked off.
Its as sad as the fate of the energia and buran shuttle-booster combo that was destroyed back in 08 by a roof collapse at baikonur

 

[TruthSeeker]

Ukrainian Women, kids, babies and the old have left the war zone. Male Ukrainians between 18 to 50 years are unable to leave the war zone as Ukrainian president has passed a decree to keep them as hostages.

What an ignorant reply. You must have no internet news if you think that your statement above is true. Keeping the men as "hostages"? Are you really that gullible?

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

What an ignorant reply. You must have no internet news if you think that your statement above is true. Keeping the men as "hostages"? Are you really that gullible?

Anyone with an iota of brain will know that Ukrainian men are being held as hostages and do not have freedom to leave the war zone.

 

[Joe Shearer]

The ‘Dream’ is dead: Air cargo wonder destroyed in Ukraine

Ukrainian officials vow to rebuild the world’s largest commercial cargo plane, which was capable of carrying prodigious loads.

www.freightwaves.com

The largest commercial cargo plane has been destroyed by Russian soldiers during fighting at an airport outside Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian government’s official Twitter account.

The Antonov AN-225, nicknamed Mriya, or “Dream,” had six engines, could carry 225 tons of cargo and consumed about 20 tons of fuel per hour of flight.

“Russia may have destroyed our ‘Mriya.’. But they will never be able to destroy our dream of a strong, free and democratic European state. We shall prevail!” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kulebo wrote on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497947370008547332

What a shame!

 

[HttpError]

That's its hangar and there is obviously a very large plane burning in it.

As per Beast, this could be a plastic decoy.

 

[casual]

Just build a bigger one.

 

[K_Bin_W]

Isn't there a 2nd AN-225 China will assemble/complete?

 

[GiantPanda]

Isn't there a 2nd AN-225 China will assemble/complete?

Yes, and there was supposed to be a new assembly for it in China too. The US got Ukraine to stop working with China and that idea went to nothing. Ukraine reversed on that, Motor Sich and everything else under American pressure.

 

[Khanate]

Heartbreaking to hear!

A loss for the aviation world.