Last updated 29 May 2023. New total: 107 flights. Original total (24 Feb - 24 May 2022) was 23 flights. In the first months of 2022, dozens of western civilian and military cargo aircraft delivered aid for Ukraine to Ukrainian airports. However, it‘s not just Ukraine that is receiving uncommon foreign cargo flights: Russia is too. In the months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at least 69 Iranian cargo flights flew from Iran to Moscow. In this blog post, I will first shortly summarize the Western Airlift to Ukraine. Afterwards, I will show how three cargo aircraft from Iran regularly visit airports around Moscow. I will also provide further background information about these aircraft and provide visual evidence for their visits.
I must add up the fact that a new 20 yrs strategical contract signed just this year right before invasion . that alone could explaine increase in flights.
I'm not sure if my first comment went through, but I'll repeat 🤞. I did a visual experiment highlighting the international help carried by AN124 Ruslans (the one you mentioned in the beginning of your post) with an accent on approximate routes and detour patterns due to closed airspace. There even is a reference to one of your tweets. So if that would be of any interest or you have more concrete data to expand on that investigation, do let me know. The visualization page is hidden for now as I don't want to upset Antonov https://twitter.com/AntonovCompany/status/1524370214170808327 and all the risks involved. But you are already aware of the state of that business.
well, the western company won't deal with Russia anymore its natural that some other companies will going to fill the void created
I must add up the fact that a new 20 yrs strategical contract signed just this year right before invasion . that alone could explaine increase in flights.
I'm not sure if my first comment went through, but I'll repeat 🤞. I did a visual experiment highlighting the international help carried by AN124 Ruslans (the one you mentioned in the beginning of your post) with an accent on approximate routes and detour patterns due to closed airspace. There even is a reference to one of your tweets. So if that would be of any interest or you have more concrete data to expand on that investigation, do let me know. The visualization page is hidden for now as I don't want to upset Antonov https://twitter.com/AntonovCompany/status/1524370214170808327 and all the risks involved. But you are already aware of the state of that business.