Dozens of people, including Ukrainian military and diplomats, were killed and injured as a result of the helicopter they were traveling in crashing near Kyiv.
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The helicopter carrying the Ukrainian interior minister and his deputy crashes near Kyiv
Dozens of people were killed and injured, including Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky, his deputy Yevgeny Yeni and a state minister, after the helicopter that was carrying them fell near Kyiv.
Reportedly the leadership of the interior ministry of #Ukraine died. A helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary, outside the capital Kyiv. So far, it is known about 16 dead, including 2 children. There are also 22 injured, including 10 children, who are in hospitals. pic.twitter.com/NMbhrxC4Wr
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) January 18, 2023
Ukrainian police said that the Ukrainian interior minister and his deputy were among the people killed today, Wednesday, when a helicopter belonging to the state emergency service crashed near a nursery outside the capital, Kyiv, without specifying the cause of the crash.
As a result of a helicopter crash in Brovary Minister and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine died. Emergency Service helicopter crashed at local kindergarten. 16 dead, two of them children. Terrible tragedy. pic.twitter.com/KiKR5ItDoI
— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) January 18, 2023
The police chief explained that “9 of the dead were in the emergency services helicopter that crashed in Brovary, an eastern suburb of Kyiv, and a total of at least 22 people were injured, including 10 children,” stressing that evacuations will continue.
