No fewer than Sixteen people, including two children and Ukraine’s interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky died on Wednesday after an helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the capital Kyiv.
According to the head of national police, Igor Klymenko, “several top officials of the interior ministry also died.
Also confirming the ugly incident Telegram, the head of the Kyiv regional administration, Oleksiy Kuleba said, “In the city of Brovary, a helicopter fell near a kindergarten and a residential building.”
A video that circulated online from the aftermath of the incident, cries could be heard at the scene which was consumed by fire.
He also explained that, “At the time of the tragedy, children and employees were in the kindergarten.”
Medics and police were working at the scene, he added.
The town of Brovary is located some 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Kyiv.
Recall that Russian and Ukrainian forces fought for control of Brovary in the early stages of Moscow’s invasion until Russia’s troops withdrew in early April, 2022.
On February 24, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to pro-Western Ukraine.