Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former head of Antonov State Enterprise, his deputy, and the head of the aviation security unit are suspected of impeding the ...

Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who is making his first visit to Ukraine as president, has visited the battlefield at Hostomel Airport and met with several military personnel who took part in its ...

Taking possession of the Antonov airport in Hostomel, which has a long runway allowing the landing of heavy-lift transport planes, would mean Russia can airlift troops directly to Kyiv’s outskirts.

During military exercises in Finland, NATO forces simulated a battle for Hostomel Airport. The troops practiced both capturing an enemy airfield and defending it, taking into account the experience of ...

The Antonov An-225 Mriya—once the world’s largest aircraft—lies in pieces in an airport northwest of Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv. Heavily damaged during fierce fighting between Russian paratroopers ...

Here's some advice for nations who don't want Russian troops as uninvited guests: Guard your airport. That's the recommendation from two American defense experts who point to a pattern in Russian ...

The Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest cargo plane, destroyed in the Battle of Antonov Airport during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, stays in a ruined hangar in Hostomel, Kyiv Region, ...

Russia’s heavy rotorcraft casualties in the early part of the Ukraine war stem from outdated tactics and poor planning, argues Bell executive and former US Army general Jeffrey Schloesser, and do not ...

New images show a flurry of activity around the wreck of the legendary Antonov Mriya-225, the world's largest plane. A point of Ukrainian national pride, the vast Soviet-era cargo plane was destroyed ...