Eighteen people have been killed, including Ukraine's interior affairs minister, after a helicopter crashed beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv.

Three children were among the dead and 15 more are being treated in hospital.

The minister, Denys Monastyrsky, was with eight others in the helicopter.

His first deputy minister and the state secretary also died, officials said, when the helicopter came down in the suburb of Brovary.

The 42-year-old interior minister was a prominent member of President Volodymy Zelensky's cabinet and played a key role in updating the public on casualties caused by Russian missile strikes since Ukraine was invaded in February 2022.

 

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A preliminary version of the investigation into the cause of the helicopter crash revealed the pilot error, as the helicopter was reportedly "flying low in the fog and hit the roof of the kindergarten".

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/ukraine-says-equipment-malfunction-caused-helicopter-crash-that-killed-interior-minister-articleshow.html

 

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Why do you keep shooting down your own stuff? Ukrainian air defense shot down a Eurocopter EC225 LP Super Puma helicopter of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine. The device fell on a kindergarten in Brovary, Kyiv region. The exact number of victims is still unknown.

 

 

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