At the moment there are 18 deceased, including the Minister of the Interior, the Vice Minister and the Secretary of State. They have also reported the deaths of three children.
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The Minister of the Interior of Ukraine, Denis Monastyrskyhas died along with his deputy and 18 other people in the accident of a helicopter that crashed this morning in the Ukrainian city of brovaryin the kyiv region.
The head of the country’s National Police has announced the death of the minister, as well as his ‘number two’ and the Secretary of State. In total there are about 16 dead in the accident, including 3 children. In addition, there are 29 people injured, including 15 children.
At the moment, the causes of the accident are not known and there have been no comments about it from Russia. Ukraine’s chief prosecutor, Andrei Kostin, has stated that “all options are being considered for now.” The spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Police, Mariana Reva, for her part, has stressed that it is still early to rule on the causes.
The helicopter crashed this Wednesday near a nursery and an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Brovary, near kyiv: “At the time of the tragedy there were children and employees of the institution in the nursery. At this time the entire The world has been evacuated. There are victims,” reported the head of the kyiv regional military administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, on his Telegram account, minutes after the accident.
Denis Monastyrski, Interior Minister, would be the highest-ranking officer killed in the conflict since Moscow ordered the invasion of the country.
Zelenski asks to “clarify” the incident
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has confirmed this Wednesday the death of Denis Monastirski, and has demanded to “clarify the circumstances of what happened”.
“Today a terrible tragedy took place in Brovary,” said the president. “The pain is unspeakable. The helicopter has fallen on the grounds of a nursery,” he stated, before stressing that “the exact number of victims of the tragedy is being clarified.”
Source: Eitb
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