SeniorUkrainian officials, including the country’s interior minister, were among at least 14 people killed when a helicopter crashed in heavy fog Wednesday morning in a suburb of Kyiv.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service confirmed the fatalities included a child,Interior minister Denys Monastyrskyiand two other ministry officials, Deputy Yevhen Yenin and State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yurii Lubkovych,The New York Timesreported.
It was en route to one of the country’s “hot spots,“The New York Timesreported, when it crashed in Brovary, just east of the capital.
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PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyissued a statement following the crash, which happened at school drop-off time — approximately 8:20 a.m. — calling it a “terrible tragedy.”
“The pain is unspeakable,” he said on his Telegram channel, and added it was a “black morning.”
Zelensky said that he has asked local authorities “to find out all the circumstances of what happened.”
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The accident comes just days after45 people died in a Russian missile strikeon an apartment block in the southern city of Dnipro. The Associated Press reported that the fatalities included six children, while 79 people were injured. The attack on civilians took place just over one month short of thefirst-year anniversary of the Russian invasion.
source: people.com
