25th Transport Aviation Brigade

History

Operations

• In 1993, 3 Il-76 aircraft of the Brigade delivered humanitarian cargo from Cologne to Tbilisi during a Ukrainian humanitarian mission in Georgia.
• Supported Ukrainian operations in UN missions in the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East, and Africa.
• Brigade was involved in a "Ukraine - North Pole - 2000" Ukraine parachute expedition to the North Pole in 2000.
• Operation "Northern Falcon" is a joint Ukrainian-Danish operation for the transportation of fuel from the US Air Force "Thule" to the Danish Polar Station "Nord" by the military transport aircraft IL-76MD. It has been conducted annually since 2009.
• Supported the evacuation of Ukrainian Citizens from Libya in 2011.
• Supported the evacuation of Ukrainian Citizens from Syria in 2013.
• Supported the evacuation of Ukrainian Citizens from Nepal in 2015.
• Airlift support to NATO operations in Mali.
• On 8 January 2020, transport aircraft of the 25th Transport Aviation Brigade IL-76 has flown out from the Boryspil International Airport to the crash site of the Ukrainian International Airlines flight which took place near Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
• On 19 January 2020 the bodies of 11 Ukrainian citizens, who died in the crash, were returned to Ukraine in a solemn ceremony at the Boryspil International Airport. The coffins, which were each draped in a Ukrainian flag, were carried one by one from a Ukrainian Il-76 military plane.

  Aircraft

• An-26
• Il-76

  Accidents

• On June 13, 2014, an IL-76 Transport was shot down killing forty 25th Airborne Brigade troopers near Luhansk, Ukraine. “On the night of June 13–14, firing from an anti-aircraft gun and a large-caliber machine gun, anti-regime forces cynically and treacherously shot down a Ukraine armed forces transport plane IL-76 which was bringing personnel for rotation,” said in a statement posted on the Defense Ministry's official website.