What do you think of the World's largest plane destroyed by Russians?

[AviatorTom]

The world's largest aircraft, the Ukrainian AN-225, was destroyed at its base airport by a Russian airstrike during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

This aircraft, originally built to ferry the Soviet-built Buran space shuttle (which never flew), has been all over the world moving large quantities of materials (including COCID-19 medicines) and physically large pieces of equipment from one place to another. In many situations, it is the only way such material can be moved.

Now that the plane is lost, some of that material will no longer be moved, or will have to be broken down into smaller shipments. Much of the world is deeply saddened by the loss of the AN-225.

What do you think?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

Updates

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Here's a YouTube video about the plane and its possible future...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8iQ9989Hs

[Anonymous]

The Ukranian President gave free guns randomly to all to defend themselves and yet these idiots started shooting themselves before the Russians ever entered. YET these deaths will be counted as if Russians killed them but this your western media will never expose to you.
War is always awful and a lot of innocent people die as a result but to claim russia is evil is ridiculous when usa has killed millions by justifying that they are doing it for a good cause, just the same russia has their own cause. Just keep in mind that the Ukrainian started killing themselves before anyone invaded, and the ukranian piece of sht president now screams for help. SMH

[Mango-man]

I see you have a severe case of WHATABOUTISM, which makes you forget about Poland (1939) or Czechoslovakia (1968).

[Agape93]

Time to make a better one then. @PrettyPriya

[DaveJord]

AN-225 was not a very cost efficient air craft. I mean there was only one built and it was for a very specific purpose.

In general air transport is very inefficient in turns of cost to payload... so it is only when time is a major factor and there are plenty of other air craft that meet industries need of moving cargo rapidly. So the lost of the An-225 is insignificant.

[Jupiter1]

That's unfortunate. At least it got a role in the movie 2012. I guess now the Airbus A380 is officially the world's largest aircraft.

[HighlyVolatile]

I don't really think anything. I probably should. But I think I've become desensitized to the media news. I'm not a normally ruthless and callous type of person. I grieved deeply when ISIS was destroying historical monuments. But then I stopped caring about these things and the news. That was the last time I ever really cared.

[hahahmm]

Ukrainians should have flown it to Poland before the war broke out. Yes, it sucks that it's gone but not a surprise.

[AviatorTom]

No one really knows why they didn't fly it out, except that the Russian attack on its airport was very swift, and unexpected. Very few thought that Russia would actually invade Ukraine.

[hahahmm]

Ukraine knew the invasion was coming before the 1st day tho. They were warned by the U. S. weeks in advance, I think. That said, I guess if you have to defend an entire country, 1 non military plane is probably not that high on the priority list. They probably had their hands full with getting ready.

[exitseven]

Putin has really messed up up the world. Ukraine is already in the EU I would not surprise me if they end up joining NATO which is exactly what Putin did not want.

[DryGermanGuy]

Ukraine is not a member of the EU. Even with all political will, this is not something to happen overnight.

[exitseven]

@DryGermanGuy I think it will happen sooner than that.

[DryGermanGuy]

There is no process of fast-tracking an EU membership. So even to invent one would take up the equivalent time. Apart from that, the EU itself has current and future military elements, which would automatically mean a case of collective defense for all (similar to a NATO article 5 scenario). I can't see that happening soon.

[Anonymous]

That plane was cool.
I also watched about how all these children with cancer had to be evacuated, and all these babies with health problems are in a basement somewhere getting oxygen by from a nurse by hand.
Putin is horrible.

[Opinion Owner]

Also 16 children were killed in an attack the other day, it's like hell there.

[RobT312]

It’s sad really. All of this needless damage and lives lost due to one sicko.

[Dargil]

Incredibly bad PR. The Russian military flies 29 AN 124's, 747 size. Bad for the Russian peoples' self image. The plane cost 3 billion dollars to build.

[OfDeath]

There should be a global retaliation against Russia.

[Pohjolan]

It would be only fair that someone stingers Putin's helicopter in return.

[Sonorous]

I think it is not the last good thing to be destroyed because of an overly emotional ape.

[NamerOfStars]

Well, that sucks. But, you know, war. It's how these things go. Was anything salvageable left?

[jshm2]

It was a waste of money anyway. Also Ukraine was a corrupt state and a kangaroo democracy.

[Anonymous]

A huge waste couldn't they use parts to make something else

[MountAverage]

There's PEOPLE dying in this war. Why are we talking about a plane?

[Gidge]

You could see it as an epic protest against consumerism.

[DWornock]

I don't know the facts and it is almost impossible to get the facts from the lying USA and their media.

[Recurrence]

Good. If I were a super human, I would down everything in the sky

[GlassTop]

It was just a useless aircraft. Designed just to be big rather than function well. It’s good it’s gone.

[IsoUser]

An Epic Failure, considering that the Russians built the world's largest aircraft and left it Abandoned on a beach.

[EnglishEuropean]

Typical Putin. If he can't have something he breaks it.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

That's it, Russians gone too far