- Ukraines interior minister and senior officials were killed in a helicopter crash in Kyiv.
- Ukrainian interior minister Denys
- Monastyrskyy is among the 18 victims of a helicopter crash near a nursery outside the capital, Kyiv.
- At least three children and two top officials – Monastyrskyy’s deputy Yevhen Yenin and state secretary Yurii Lubkovich – were among those who died in the disaster.
- Emergency services are working to rescue children and employees after the crash near Brovary.
- Meanwhile, Ukraine is a step closer to winning approval for German-made modern battle tanks and has secured pledges for more Patriot defence missiles.
- Sixteen people, including the Ukrainian Minister of Interior and two children, were killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten this morning, Wednesday, in the Kyiv region, according to Ukrainian police.
- "We have information about 16 dead, including two children," the police said in a statement. It also referred in its statement to the killing of the Minister of Interior, his first assistant and another senior official who were on board the helicopter.
- Kyiv region governor Oleksiy Kuleba said a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and an apartment building in the town of Brovary on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday, adding that the accident caused casualties.
- "There were children and kindergarten staff at the time of this tragedy," Kuleba wrote on the messaging app Telegram. "Im leaving everyone now. There are victims."
- Video clips on social media showed a burning building and people screaming.
- Ukrainian officials did not indicate any Russian attack in the region at the time.
Ukraines interior minister and senior officials were killed in a helicopter crash in Kyiv.
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Ukraines interior minister and senior officials were killed in a helicopter crash in Kyiv.
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