Work underway in Ukraine to replace largest cargo plane in world



The An-225 was the largest cargo plane in the world before it was destroyed in Russia’s war against Ukraine. ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge reports on the work underway to build a new, similar plane.

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29 comments

  1. That plane ✈️ can’t build. Because it’s built from Russia. It is a Russian plane ✈️ ✈️ Who is making this news ? Without knowing anything.

  2. Why are people fighting in Ukraine when Putin is in Russia? RAISE PUTIN BOUNTY & STOP THE WAR.

    Why do Americans shoot 44 other Americans each day? PUT THE GUNS DOWN.

    Why hasn't Trump been charged with treason? JAIL TRUMP.

    Why does America ignore 1,045,792 Covid deaths? WEAR MASKS & VACCINATE.

  3. Damn u!!! Ukrainian nazis destroyed the plane!!
    You is a sick person spreading

  4. a que espera Russia para destruir este angar y todas las fabricas de armamentos en Ukranian?

  5. Democrats think Mexicans.are Tacos la hesposa de Biden dijo eso
    Raza vote Republican, la verdad es que los Democrats son Racistas

  6. BLA BLA BLA that was a soviet built and engineered aircraft.

  7. As I understand it there was a second plane in process but never completed long ago. Also, for how many MONTHS was the U.S. and other intelligence agencies warning Ukraine and the entire world of the impending invasion with tens of thousands of Russian troops in position ready to strike??? Why was the plane not transported ANYWHERE on earth then??? Why is the USA funding another plane at all and why is it happening BEFORE THE WAR IS COMPLETED, cities are rebuilt and humming along, the Ukrainian economy is robust and strong and the continuing death and destruction now ongoing has long passed???? How bizarre all of this is to me. RIP AN225, king of the skies.

  8. When you cross the red line an accident often occurs. And the red liine (poking the bear) was well kmown.

  9. Yeah, that is priority lol

  10. If they actually build the 2nd they should call it the miracle because it would build a miracle if it actually got build

  11. Volga-Knepr smashed all the gauges out of US Navy HSC-25 helicopters they flew out of Guam on a AN-125 to Afghanistan under a UN contract. Big stink after the ukraines did that to American helicopters during the Afghanistan war.

  12. I would not be surprised if Ukrainian Azov did it and blamed it on Russia like they have been doing after they kill their own people and blow up their own structures…

  13. How can such a dirt poor country like Ukraine even afford to build one of those ??? Makes no sense where they get all this free money while we live in constant taxation without representation in the west.

  14. People need to wake up to how this war was instigated and planned since 2014
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=KsQSeOpE8qQ&feature=share

  15. Sorry, you aren't right. You and zelensky, go to EU madam.
    EU Contact UN, Declare and go past, No man's land borders and vacate land. Declare No man's land borders and vacate more than sufficient land or go, evacuate, go home to other countries and live happily for years to come.
    Hundred days over now leave them and world has other work. Wastage of people's life and lifetime is not right.
    Go save your refugees in other countries. Leave attack and fight. Why kill when work can be done. You can forget and their lives can be of other uses. Surrender to Russian army, US aided Ukraine. Ukraine is a loser and Losers cannot be choosers. Have guts to quickly evacuate, escape. Not to fight,right. Ukraine,Go evacuate now to other countries, Are Ukrainian refugees wrong, then Ukrainian's in Ukraine are wrong.

  16. How is it at all fair if Ukraine cant bomb into Russia?

  17. If they do I think them commies will try and blow it out of the sky .

  18. Free from Canada.

  19. Уважаемые читатели иностранцы изучите детально инфу, самолёт был создан в СССР вместе с Украиной. Не нужно говорить что это только украинский самолёт… СССР сделала большой вклад в этот проект. А кто его обстрелял за вами решать… Сейчас идёт информационная промывка мозгов, правду никто не узнает (

  20. Ukraine is in the middle of a war. Ukraine's leaders are literally begging for aid (both weapons and funding) from other countries almost each and every day. I was always impressed by this plane too, but it hardly seems to the time for Ukraine to be spending other peoples' money on a feel-good propaganda project. Every penny that the west sends them should be used on humanitarian aid not on rebuilding old airplanes, no matter how impressive those planes might be. I'd like to see this plane fly again too, but that can wait until after the war. There are plenty of more important and productive ways for Ukraine to be spending OUR MONEY. And I'm not sure why people keep referring to this plane as a Ukrainian aircraft. As others have pointed out it's actually a Soviet designed aircraft that was built in the Soviet Union, just like the SU-25's, Su-27's, Mig-29's, etc… that both sides are flying in this war. Why a country that is trying to break away from its Soviet past is obsessed with celebrating its Soviet era accomplishments is a mystery.

  21. They gonna build it and then it’s done booom another bomb 🤷🏼

  22. Unfortunately if ukraine would listen to the calls from us that Russia is about to attack they would make sure to stash this plane in another country airport.

  23. An 225 is not ukrainian aircraft its USSR aircraft
    Get your facts right

  24. If NATO puts ships around Odessa then the world's hunger crisis is solved ppl…

    and to you WW3 paranoids: Putin didn't invade Finland or Sweden despite his BS, why? because UK, then NATO guaranteed military intervention in case of an invasion.

  25. Ya
    Called build back better

  26. All dreams can come true if you truly believe