The Security Service of Ukraine has prevented russia from circumventing previously imposed sanctions related to maintenance of AN transport aircraft. The SSU established that russia had registered a shell company in a country in the Middle East, which supposedly has nothing to do with moscow.

This would allow the occupiers to ‘legally’ service heavy transport aircraft around the world. However, due to proactive work of the SSU, the relevant Ukrainian agencies revoked the maintenance certificate for the foreign ‘mediator’ of the aggressor country.

From now on, russia will not be able to repair its cargo planes manufactured under the license of Antonov State Enterprise in any country.

This will significantly affect the occupiers’ logistics, as they used over 10 heavy AN-124 aircraft to transport personnel and heavy armored vehicles in the course of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

They don’t have long to fly and it will be hard to land...