According to sources, the interior minister of Ukraine was one of 16 people killed, including two children, when a helicopter crashed close to a kindergarten outside of Kyiv.
Cries could be heard at the scene, which was devastated by a fire, in a video that surfaced online shortly after the incident.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
“In total, 16 people are currently known to have died,” the head of national police, Igor Klymenko, said.
Top interior ministry officials, including Denys Monastyrsky, the interior minister, and Yevgeniy Yenin, his first deputy minister, are among the deceased, he claimed.
In 2021, interior minister Monastyrsky, a 42-year-old father of two, was chosen.
There were 22 people hospitalised, including 10 kids.
Children and staff members were in the kindergarten when the crash occurred, according to the police. Medics and police were working at the scene. The scene of the crash in the town of Brovary is located some 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Kyiv.
Down until the withdrawal of Russian troops in early April, Russian and Ukrainian forces fought for control of Brovary in the early stages of Moscow’s invasion. On February 24 of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to the pro-Western Ukraine.
The tragedy that happened at the weekend when a Russian missile struck a residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro left 45 people, including six children, dead.
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