> "It will cost over USD3 billion to restore the plane, the restoration shall be time-consuming. Ukraine will make every effort to ensure that the aggressor sta

> "It will cost over USD3 billion to restore the plane, the restoration shall be time-consuming. Ukraine will make every effort to ensure that the aggressor state pays for these works," And if you believe that will happen, I have a bridge to sell you… There’s a lot of ways this war can go, but that it should somehow end with Russia paying reparations to Ukraine is rather unlikely. And that the Ukrainian government would then spend a fortune of those (badly needed) reparations to build a new An-225 is even less likely.