{"id":18530,"date":"2022-03-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=18530"},"modified":"2022-03-03T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:34:15","slug":"antonov-225-footage-from-hostomel-airport-shows-the-mriya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/04\/antonov-225-footage-from-hostomel-airport-shows-the-mriya\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonov 225  &#8211; Footage from Hostomel Airport shows the Mriya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">On March 3, 2022, unconfirmed footage of <strong>Hostomel Airport (GML) <\/strong>near Kyiv, Ukraine, surfaced on social media. The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/antonov.com\">Antonov<\/a> An-225<\/strong> Mriya is seen destroyed among the rubble of a <strong>damaged hangar and Russian military trucks <\/strong>in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FMuhdmNXEAIe7gc-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"The Antonov An-225 Mriya is seen destroyed among the rubble of a damaged hangar and Russian military trucks in the video.\" class=\"wp-image-18535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FMuhdmNXEAIe7gc-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FMuhdmNXEAIe7gc-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FMuhdmNXEAIe7gc-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FMuhdmNXEAIe7gc-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FMuhdmNXEAIe7gc-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FMuhdmNXEAIe7gc-750x563.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FMuhdmNXEAIe7gc-1140x855.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FMuhdmNXEAIe7gc.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">Since the beginning of <strong>Russia's invasion of Ukraine <\/strong>on February 24, 2022, conflicting claims about the fate of the <strong>world's largest aeroplane have surfaced.<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the first day of the invasion, <strong>Hostomel Airport<\/strong>, which is located near Kyiv, Ukraine&#8217;s capital, was bombed. <\/li><li><strong>Russian paratroopers <\/strong>were allegedly ordered to the spot to construct a bridgehead for more forces to be flown in. <\/li><li>The <strong>Russian military <\/strong>took control of the infrastructure after a day of fighting with the Ukrainian National Guard.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude28\ud83d\ude2d<\/p>&mdash; ANTONOV Company \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@AntonovCompany) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntonovCompany\/status\/1499353323702394880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 27, 2022, <strong>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba <\/strong>revealed its claimed annihilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> The Antonov Company, on the other hand, had <strong>declined to corroborate the information<\/strong>, claiming that it needed to wait for an official expert review.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <strong>An-225<\/strong> was designed for the Soviet space programme to transport the <strong>Buran space shuttle as well as bulky rocket components. <\/strong><\/li><li>It took to the air for the first time in 1988. <\/li><li>It has <strong>six engines and 42 tyres, <\/strong>allowing it to transport up to 640 tonnes, making it the <strong>most powerful and largest aircraft ever built<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220303_215028.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220303_215028.jpg 720w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220303_215028-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220303_215028-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme was supposed to create two planes, but only one was finished before the <strong>Soviet Union<\/strong> fell apart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The second giant&#8217;s unfinished<\/strong> airframe is stored in another hangar at Antonov Airport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay Informed with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Antonov An-225 Mriya is seen destroyed among the rubble of a damaged hangar and Russian military trucks in the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[459,2170,5419,465,5411],"class_list":{"0":"post-18530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-antonov","9":"tag-antonov-an-225-mriya","10":"tag-hostomel-airport","11":"tag-mriya","12":"tag-russian-military"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18539,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18530\/revisions\/18539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}