Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrskyhas died along with his deputy and 16 other people in a helicopter crash that crashed this morning in the Ukrainian city of Brovary, in the region of kyivAccording to the head of the National Police.
“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 police note.
“In total, 16 people have died, including two children. Of these, nine were on board the device,” Klimenko said, adding that Another 22 people, including ten children, are hospitalized. “All the specialized services work on the spot,” he stressed.
Minutes before, the governor of kyiv, Oleksiy Kuleba, had detailed that the helicopter “has fallen near a nursery and a residential building.” “At the time of the tragedy, children and employees of the institution were in the nursery. Everyone has been evacuated,” he had highlighted through his Telegram account.
Likewise, the spokesperson for the Police in the kyiv region, Irina Prianishnikova, pointed out that the event had resulted in several deaths, without giving further details. “Police and emergency services, as well as the National Guard, are on the scene. We have already evacuated several people.”he said, according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.
For his part, the deputy adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, Kirilo Timoshenko, has said that “the number of reports about victims in Brovary is increasing”. “We do not have time to recover from a tragedy and we already have another,” she lamented.
Source: Lasexta
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