The Prime Minister of Ukraine, denis shmigalhas announced this Wednesday the appointment of Igor Klimenko as interim Minister of the Interior after the death in a plane crash of the previous one in office, Denis Monastirski.
Shmigal has reported that Klimenko has been entrusted with the post of head of the Interior until a new candidate is presented to Parliament.
“The Ministry of the Interior is one of the key branches of our country’s security, which is why the necessary protocols are needed to keep control of all affairs“He said on his Telegram channel.
Klimenko, who serves as deputy minister of that same portfolio and as head of the Ukrainian National Police, has been one of the first to report the death of Monastirski along with 13 other people, including several children, after a helicopter crash. in the city Brovary, in the kyiv region.
The wrecked helicopter, which was carrying nine people, including part of the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior, like Monastirski himself, the first deputy minister, Yevgeny Jenin and the Secretary of State, Yuri Lubkovichcrashed near a kindergarten and a residential building.
At the moment, the Ukrainian authorities do not rule out any possible scenario regarding the reasons for the accident and the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas asked “clarify” the circumstances of this “terrible tragedy”.
Source: Lasexta
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