Ukraine’s interior minister among 18 dead in helicopter crash near Kyiv
Helicopter came down near a nursery in the town of Brovary on the capital’s outskirts.
Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and his first deputy, Yevheniy Yenin, were killed.
Ukraine’s interior minister was among 18 people, including two children, who were killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the capital Kyiv, officials said on Wednesday.
In a video that circulated online from the aftermath of the incident, cries could be heard at the scene which was consumed by a fire.
There were no immediate details on the cause of the crash in Brovary, located some 20km (12 miles) northeast of Kyiv.
The national police chief said that Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, who was appointed under President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2021, was killed.
His first deputy, Yevheniy Yenin, and the ministry’s state secretary also died, he said.