Photo by Andrii Nesterenko | The Hostomel, an airfield near Kyiv. February 27, 2022 | One of the most significant assets destroyed by the Russians was the AN-225, the largest aircraft in the world.
“This was the world’s largest aircraft, the AN-225 ‘Mriya’ (‘Dream’ in Ukrainian). 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!”
— Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs