Kyiv Post: The United States purchased dozens of non-functional Soviet aircraft for Ukraine from Kazakhstan through offshore companies
According to the publication, in October 2023, Kazakhstan organized an auction at which obsolete and unusable Soviet-made military aircraft from the 1970s and 1980s, including the MiG-31, MiG-29 and Su-24, were sold.
The lot consisted of 117 aircraft, and its starting price was $1.5 million. The Kyiv Post claims that the United States, through intermediaries and offshore companies, bought 81 aircraft.
It is assumed that in the future these aircraft will be transferred to Ukraine for processing for spare parts, or as decoy targets at airfields.
