На русском языке:
«Антонов» больше не сможет возить военные грузы из Баранович?
На беларускай мове:
«Антонаў» больш не зможа вазіць ваенныя грузы з Баранавічаў?
Today, May 24, 2021, Vladimir Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, instructed the government to prepare a decision on the termination of air traffic between Ukraine and Belarus.
After the signing of the document, not only passenger planes, but also cargo planes will stop flying from Ukraine to Belarus. Such a decision will affect the business of the Ukrainian airline Antonov, which recently actively helped Alexander Lukashenko to «gift» fighter planes to the Serbs and to transport military cargo from Belarus to other countries.
How did Antonov transport military "gifts" from Belarus?
On Thursday, May 20, 2021, the Ukrainian airline Antonov reacted to the note of the Serbian media about the fact of transportation from Belarus (the Baranovichi military airfield) to Serbia of a batch of decommissioned MiG-29 that underwent major repairs and «gifted» by the Belarusian military to the fraternal Serbian Air Force.
The article deals with the transportation of two «MiGs» on May 15-16, 2021, which was confirmed by Antonov.
Board UR-82009 flew to Baranovichi from Leipzig on May 15 at 17:06 Minsk time.
He flew with the cargo on May 16, 2021 at 09:20 in the direction of the military airfield Batainitsa in the suburbs of Belgrade. But he could not land there and stayed in Budapest for one day. On May 17, the board successfully reached its destination.
The first batch, also two MiG-29, the same board transported to Batainitsa on April 17, 2021, arriving in Baranovichi from Gostomel (Antonov base near Kiev).
Then the An-124 again returned to Baranovichi and on April 20, 2021 took a batch of the same MiG-29 to Bangladesh (Dhaka) with an intermediate landing in Kuwait.
Antonov is not the first time seen in the transportation of military cargo from Belarus. Another board with the number UR-82029 cruised on November 10-11, 2020 between Minsk and the Turkish Air Force base in Konya:
Board UR-82009 in late October — early November 2020 made two flights to Minsk for missiles for the S-125 complex, delivering them to the military base Sweihan (a suburb of Abu Dhabi) in the UAE, while having managed to move between the base and Dubai International Airport.
