Zhytomyr International Airport ( uk, Міжнародний аеропорт «Житомир») is an

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Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

History

The airport started operating in 1939. But in November 2011, it was stripped from its registration as civil airport because it had not received any

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since 1990. On 30 December 2015, the airport again received an airport certificate and reopened on 29 January 2016, with the (technical) flight of a

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.Zhytomyr airport to resume operation after 4-year break – city mayor

Interfax-Ukraine The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukraine, Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company pub ...

(02.01.2016) Maintenance for the fleet of Yanair is provided at Zhytomyr Airport. On 30 June 2021 the

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ( uk, Кабінет Міністрів України, translit=Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine ( uk, Уряд України, ''Uriad Ukrai ...

adopted an order to open a

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at Zhytomyr Airport, to allow it to accept

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s. The following August 12 the checkpoint registered its first plane; an airplane from the

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with two citizens of Ukraine on board. Zhytomyr Airport attack

On 27 February 2022, during the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

, Zhytomyr Airport was hit by 2 Iskander missiles launched from Belarus.

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