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Antonov proposes international fund to build new An-225, world's biggest plane, to replace one destroyed by fighting.

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Antonov, manufacturer of the world's largest aircraft, the An-225 Mriya, is proposing to start an international fund to rebuild the behemoth aircraft, according to Antonov General Director Serhiy Bychkov. The plane was destroyed during fighting in Hostomel near Kyiv on Feb. 27. Building a new An-225 can cost more than $3 billion.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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