A helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning near a kindergarten and an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Brovary, in the kyiv region, have explained the Ukrainian authorities, who have said that there have been deaths.
At the moment, they encrypt in 18 deceased peopleincluding Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky and his deputy.
“This morning, on January 18, an Emergency Service helicopter crashed in Brovary. As a result of the plane crash, the leaders of the Ministry of the Interior died: the minister, the first deputy minister and the secretary of state,” says the note from police. In total, 18 people are known to have died, including two children. Of them, nine were on board the helicopter
“At the time of the tragedy there were children and employees of the institution in the nursery. At this time everyone has been evacuated. There are victims,” ​​said the head of the kyiv regional military administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, in his Telegram account, quoted by Ukrinform.
There are 29 people hospitalized, including 15 children, authorities have said.
Ukraine denounces the death of about 460 children since the beginning of the Russian invasion
The Ukrainian authorities have raised to about 460 the number of children killed since the beginning of the Russian invasion, unleashed on February 24, 2022 by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office has indicated in a message on its Telegram account that so far it has been able to verify the death of 459 children, before adding that more than 900 have been injured “as a result of large-scale armed aggression by Russia.”
“These figures are not final, since the work to establish them continues in the places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied territories and in the liberated territories,” he pointed out, after confirming the death of six minors due to the attack with a projectile against a residential building in Dnipro.
Finally, he pointed out that the province of Donetsk is the one with the highest number of victims, with 429 between dead and wounded. Behind them are the Kharkov region, with 269; that of kyiv, with 117; that of Zaporizhia, with 84; that of Kherson, with 83; that of Mikolaiv, with 82; that of Chernigov, with 68; that of Lugansk, with 66; and that of Dnipropetrovsk, with 63.
Source: Lasexta
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