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Russian civil aviation is on the verge of collapse: The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine conducted a cyber operation against Rosaviation and obtained classified documents of the Russian Ministry of Transport. The intelligence managed to find out that: ▪️ In January 2023, 185 air accidents were registered in Russian civil aviation. About a third of them were classified as incidents of varying levels of danger. The leader here was the Russian short-haul airplane "Dry superjet" - 34 incidents. ▪️ In the first 9 months of 2023, 150 cases of aircraft malfunctions were documented in Russia. In the same period in 2022, 50 such incidents were recorded. Thus, the increase in the danger of flying in Russia has tripled. ▪️ Engines and landing gear, as well as other important elements such as hydraulic systems, flaps, and software, remain the most vulnerable areas of Russian aviation. ▪️The aggressor state of Russia has serious difficulties with the maintenance of high-flying aircraft. Due to the lack of capacity and specialists, Moscow is trying to reorient aircraft maintenance to Iran, where the relevant work is carried out "artisanally" - without appropriate certification. ▪️As of March 2022, Russia had about 820 foreign-made civilian aircraft. And if at that time only up to 10% of them had undergone uncertified repairs using off-brand spare parts, now almost 70% of the fleet has been put through such "service". ▪️The acute shortage of spare parts has led to the so-called "aviation cannibalism" in Russia, when some aircraft are dismantled to repair others. According to the available data, by mid-2023, more than 35% of the aircraft in Russia were "cannibalized". ▪️Most Soviet An-2 aircraft are currently unable to get off the ground because their engines were manufactured in Poland, but their supply has been suspended due to sanctions. ▪️In January 2023 alone, 19 different malfunctions were recorded among the 220 Airbus aircraft in Russia. In particular, 17 cases of smoke were recorded in 9 aircraft used by Aeroflot. ▪️Out of 230 Boeing aircraft used in Russia, 33 technical failures of various aircraft systems were recorded. ▪️Every seventh Brazilian Embraer failed to withstand the conditions of Russian exploitation, and there are 21 of them in Russia.