The Russian air carrier Volga-Dnepr is forced to spend billions of dollars because of Ukraine.

The termination of cooperation between Russia and Ukraine in the aviation industry created a lot of problems for each of the parties. The most striking example of this is the Russian air operator Volga-Dnepr, which intends to spend 12 billion dollars to buy 29 cargo planes Boeing 777 and 5 cargo ships Boeing 747.

It is reported that the Russian air carrier Volga-Dnepr is in dire need of transport aircraft. However, due to the political crisis in Russia and Ukraine, the company was never able to purchase new AN-124 transport planes Ruslan. Against this background, the carrier needed to purchase 34 cargo planes, spending a huge amount of money on it.

According to analysts, the hope for the air carrier "Volga-Dnepr" could inspire the resumption of production of Russian aircraft An-124 "Ruslan" by Russia, but experts were very skeptical about this decision, believing that in the process of preparing the production of giant aircraft will be a lot of questions, not to mention already about the need to allocate colossal sums from the state budget.

* Volga-Dnepr is a Russian cargo airline. It was founded 22 August 1990 year in the city of Ulyanovsk.