Two Turkish military transport aircraft, stuck in Ukraine since the beginning of the war 10 months ago due to hostilities and airspace closures, returned to Turkey on Tuesday. The Ministry of Defense of Turkey announced this on Twitter..

Two Airbus A400M military transport aircraft of the Turkish Air Force arrived at Kyiv-Borispol airport around midnight on February 24, the day Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.

Both delivered humanitarian cargo to Kyiv and were supposed to evacuate Turkish citizens, but could not fly back.

The aircraft departed from Ukraine on Tuesday afternoon and arrived at the airport in the Turkish city of Kayseri in the evening, the agency said in a statement..

Ukrayna'dan Kayseri'deki ana uslerine donen 2 adet A400M ucag? havaliman? na ulast? anlara iliskin goruntuler… https://t. co/ZtkEsy0tqD #MSB pic. twitter. com/.

— TC Milli Savunma Bakanl? (@tcsavunma) December 20, 2022.

As reported, on September 13, the Wizz Air plane, which had been stationed in Lviv since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, took off from Ukraine and landed in Poland.. This was the first time since April 2022 that a commercial aircraft took off from Ukraine..