A helicopter collapsed this morning near a kindergarten browaryIn the area of Kyiv: on board there were also those Interior Minister Ukrainian, Dennis Monastyrskyi, who died in the crash. For now the news reports from 18 victims total: including three children. The deputy minister also died Yevhen Yenin and the Secretary of State of the Ministry, Yuri Lubkovich. The first reconstructions provided by the Kiev authorities indicate that the helicopter hit the kindergarten before crashing near a residential houseand explains that it was dark at the time of the accident and foggy.
The crashing helicopter caused a fire in the kindergarten. The chief of the state police Ihor Klimenko states that nine of the victims were on board the aircraft. According to the head of the regional military administration Oleksiy Kulebathe wounded are 29. Klymenko reported about it 10 children hospitalized. And he added: “All competent and specialized services work on site. The crash site is being investigated.”
Interior Minister Monastyrskyi is on the way to becoming a “hot spot” in the US War when his helicopter crashed. This was said by the deputy head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office on Ukrainian television Kyrylo Tymoshenko. As the BBC correspondent from Kyiv explained, Ukrainian officials usually fly there low altitude dodge enemy missiles. And this morning it was foggy. But at the moment we don’t know caused of the accident and detectives comb the scene.
“Today there was one terrible tragedy in Brovary,” wrote the President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Telegram, adding that he “ordered the Security Service of Ukraine to find out all the circumstances of the incident in cooperation with the National Police.” Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine, commented: “My colleagues, my friends. What a tragic loss. The most sympathy to their families”.
Condolences also came from the President of the Euro Chamber Robert Metsola: “We have just been informed that the Minister of Interior of Ukraine and the leadership of his ministry were killed in a helicopter crash near Kyiv. I think I speak for all of us when I say that i our thoughts I’m in this Chamber with that brave people of Ukraine, the families and loved ones of Minister Monastyrskyi and his deputy,” he said, informing the plenary session in Strasbourg about the accident that happened in the Kyiv region this morning.