Helicopter crash
\n\u201cIn total, 16 people are currently known to have died,\u201d the head of national police, Igor Klymenko said
\n BROVARY
\nUkraine\u2019s interior minister was among 16 people, including two children, who were killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the capital Kyiv, officials said Wednesday.
\nThere were no immediate details on the cause of the crash.
\n\u201cIn total, 16 people are currently known to have died,\u201d the head of national police, Igor Klymenko, said.
\nIn a video that circulated online from the aftermath of the incident, cries could be heard at the scene which was consumed by a fire.
\nAmong the dead are several top officials of the interior ministry including Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and his first deputy minister, Yevgeniy Yenin, he said.
\nMonastyrsky, a 42-year-old father of two, was appointed interior minister in 2021. Twenty-two people were hospitalised including 10 children.
\nOfficials said that at the time of the crash children and employees were in the kindergarten. Medics and police were working at the scene.
\nThe scene of the crash in the town of Brovary is located some 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Kyiv.
\nRussian and Ukrainian forces fought for control of Brovary in the early stages of Moscow\u2019s invasion until Russia\u2019s troops withdrew in early April.
\nRussian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to pro-Western Ukraine on February 24 last year.
\nThe crash came on the heels of a tragedy that saw 45 people including six children die when a Russian missile struck a residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro at the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Helicopter crash \u201cIn total, 16 people are currently known to have died,\u201d the head of national police, Igor Klymenko said BROVARY Ukraine\u2019s interior minister was among 16 people, including two children, who were killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the capital Kyiv, officials said Wednesday. There were no immediate details on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n