The governor of the Kyiv region Oleksiy Kuleba said that among the 18 dead there are three children. “There are also 29 injured, including 15 children,” he said. | Font: VIDEO: Europapress / PHOTO: AFP
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At least 18 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister and three children, died on Wednesday in a road accident. helicopter on the outskirts Kyiv when he was heading to the front of the war with Russia.
“The purpose of the flight (was) to one of the hot spots in our country, where hostilities are taking place,” said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, adviser to the President of Ukraine. “The interior minister was on his way there,” he added.
According to the regional governor Alexei Kuleba, there were also “29 wounded, including 15 children.”
the president Vladimir Zelensky called the accident “a terrible tragedy”. “The pain is indescribable,” he added.
Prime Minister Denys Shmygal, for his part, said that he had instructed to create “a special group for a detailed investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy.”
In the pictures that circulated on social networks, you could see the remains helicopternear the car destroyed under the weight of metal.
Among the dead were 42-year-old interior minister Denis Monastyrsky, his deputy Yevgeny Zhenin and state secretary of the ministry Yuriy Lubkovich, who were on board the vehicle along with six other people, the police chief, a citizen of Ukraine, said in a statement.
Monastirsky, a lawyer by profession, has been in power since July 2021. In 2019, he was a deputy of the Rada, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, under the label “Servant of the People”, the presidential party.
The accident took place in Brovary, a city of about 100,000 people in the east of the country. Kyiv. In the first weeks of the invasion, as Russian troops tried to get closer to the Ukrainian capital, there were fierce battles in this city.
According to Kuleba, “there were children and employees in the kindergarten during the drama.
New tragedy in Ukraine.
After the accident, one of the first to react was the President of the European Council, Charles Michel. “We joined Ukraine in pain after the tragic helicopter crash (…) Monastirsky was a great friend of the EU,” the person in charge tweeted.
Based on images posted on social media, a huge fire broke out after the helicopter crashed. At the moment, the cause of the accident is not disclosed.
The plane belonged to the State Emergency Service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a representative of the Ukrainian Air Force said.
This new tragedy takes place in the midst of a war with Russiaand four days after the deadly Russian attack on the Dnieper in eastern Ukraine.
A Russian rocket destroyed an apartment building on Saturday, killing at least 45 people, including six children. It was one of the deadliest bombings since the Russian invasion began in February 2022.
The youngest victim was 11 months old, Tymoshenko lamented Tuesday evening, after more than three days of searching. Under the rubble, rescuers managed to drag a few survivors between huge concrete blocks.
This attack on a civilian object caused a great stir among the Ukrainian population. Zelensky promised that “everyone who is guilty of this war crime” would be held accountable and blamed the Russian army for the massacre. RussiaFor her part, she denied any involvement in the attack.
Source: RPP
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