Ukraine Interior Minister killed in helicopter crash (18-1-2023)

Today, 18 January 2023, a helicopter carrying the Minister of Internal affairs has crashed near Kiev. DW reports that the helicopter crashed into a building in the city of Brovary, outside the Ukrainian capital on Monday morning, officials and local media reported. According to Ukrainian police, 18 people were killed in the crash, including three children. Nine of them were on board. Among the dead are senior officials from Ukraine's Interior Ministry, including Minister Denys Monastyrskyy, his deputy and a state secretary. 29 victims of the accident were injured, 15 of them are children, Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram. Officials gave no immediate account of the cause of the crash, an investigation is underway. Earlier, Oleksiy Kuleba said, "In Brovary a helicopter has crashed next to a nursery and residential building." "Children and the employees of the kindergarten were there at the moment of the tragedy."