Antonov

Istanbul Airport has witnessed a historical moment while hosting the world's two biggest planes, an airliner and a cargo plane, at the same time on Oct. 5.
"World's biggest cargo plane named 'Mriya' and world's biggest airliner, an Airbus A380 type jumbo jet, could be screened at the same photo-shoot in a rare event," airport officials said.

Five crew members were killed and three injured on Oct. 4 when a Ukrainian Antonov-12 cargo airplane made an emergency landing near the western airport of Lviv after apparently running out of fuel and disappearing from radar, Ukrainian authorities said.

The joint statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump of November 11 is optimistic, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said in a conversation with journalists, reports sega. 

The Army of Serbia will receive from Russia two transport aircrafts "Antonov", reports Sputnik, without specifying the source of information.

According to the Russian portal, aircrafts "An-26" could land in Serbia in the next 10 months.

In addition to six MiG-29 fighters delivered recently, Russia should soon donate two transport planes to the Serbian Army, Sputnik reported on Wednesday.

Sputnik said that the two Antonov An-26 aircraft could arrive in Serbia in the next ten months.

Two disassembled MiG-29 fighters that Russia has donated to Serbia arrived to the country late on Monday aboard a Russian Antonov An-124 transport plane.

Another two were transported on Tuesday afternoon, while the plan is for all six warplanes to be transported to Serbia in this way by Friday, October 6.

The government of Ukraine has set up a special commission to manage the process of liquidating aircraft maker Antonov. The manufacturer is famous for producing Soviet-designed transport planes like the An-124 Ruslan and An-225 Mriya.

Reliance Defence, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure Limited - India's largest private sector enterprise power utility and construction company, recently signed an agreement with three Ukrainian state-run firms - Ukroboronprom, Spetstechno Exports and Antonov - to manufacture a range of military products, such as transport aircraft, armoured vehicles, maritime gas turbines and

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov says the Russian army in the future hopes to take part in open competitions with the colleagues from the West.

The European Union has futher expanded the list of sanctions on Russian officials and citizens over the Ukraine crisis.

The list includes Russian singer and lawmaker Iosif Kobzon, who stages occasional concerts in Bulgaria and abroad. He was even part of an election campaign last year held by nationalist (and staunchly Russophine) Ataka party.