Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky, 42, and his first assistant, Yevgeny Eniny, 42, died yesterday in a helicopter crash near a kindergarten in the Kyiv region, along with 16 other people, police said. that at that time there was no Russian attack in the area, and the Ukrainian president later said that the helicopter, on which the Minister of Internal Affairs was, was heading to the front, to one of the hot spots of our country, where the fighting is going on, the Minister of Internal Affairs was going there ” . The police indicated that 22 wounded were admitted to the hospital, including 10 children.
Brovary, with a population of about 100,000, is located about 20 kilometers northeast of Kyiv.
“At the time of the tragedy, there were children and workers in the kindergarten,” Governor of the Kyiv region Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram. the cause of the tragedy has not yet been reported.
A representative of the Ukrainian Air Force pointed out that the crashed helicopter belonged to the State Emergency Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Prime Minister of Ukraine considered that the death of Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky and other high-ranking officials as a result of a helicopter crash near Kyiv was a “big loss” for the war-torn country.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal wrote on Telegram: “A big loss for the government team and for the entire country. My sincere condolences to the families of the victims. I instructed (officials) to immediately form a special group to conduct a detailed investigation into all the circumstances of the tragedy.”
It is not yet clear what caused the plane to crash, and there was no immediate comment from Russia, whose forces invaded Ukraine in February, and Ukrainian officials at the time made no mention of any Russian attack in the region.
