I found a tidbit of info on the An-22’s operational career in a wartime capacity:

During the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, An-22s were used to deploy airborne troops. On October 28, 1984, one An-22 was shot down by an SA-7 shortly after taking off from Kabul, killing 250 passengers and crew. Two further An-22s crashed at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow in 1992 and at Migalovo Air Base in 1994.

In 1984 the An-22 was used to transport Mi-8 helicopters to help relief operations following the drought in Ethiopia and 1986 to deliver materials following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. An-22s became the go-to aircraft for relief missions and troops’ transportation to hot spots during the Soviet Union’s break-up in the late 1980s.