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Russian forces destroy world’s biggest cargo plane Mriya in Ukraine

The world’s biggest plane, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, gets ready to take off from an airport outside Kiev, Ukraine, April 3, 2018. PHOTO Xinhua/Chen Junfen

The restoration of the plane will cost more than 3 billion U.S. dollars.

Kiev, Ukraine | Xinhua | Russian forces have destroyed Ukraine’s flagman aircraft An-225 Mriya, the world’s biggest cargo plane, Ukraine’s state defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom said Sunday on Telegram.

The aircraft was destroyed in an attack by Russian troops on the Hostomel airport outside Kiev, Ukroboronprom said.

The restoration of the plane will cost more than 3 billion U.S. dollars and will take a long time, it said.

The An-225 Mriya, designed in the 1980s, is the longest and the heaviest airplane ever built. It was capable of carrying up to 640 tons of cargo.

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  1. Ukraine, bellum romanum. Don’t allow to be ruled by evilmen. They will steal in impunity and even expect to steal more and their appetite for abuse of power will grow in leaps.God did not make them huge to harass small ones,so if they can not help you, they should not even hurt you. To hell with the soaring of their oil prices

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