Ukraine’s Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrskyi died Wednesday morning in a helicopter crash.
The accident occurred near a nursery in a residential area in Brovary near Kyiv, the capital.
Local reports say 18 people were killed, including other ministry officials and three children.
About 30 people injured have been taken to a hospital, including 15 schoolkids.
National Police Chief, Ihor Klymenko said Monastyrskyi died alongside his first deputy, Yevheniy Yenin.
The ill-fated chopper belonged to the state emergency service.
“There were children and staff in the nursery at the time of this tragedy”, said Kyiv Governor Oleksiy Kuleba.
The accident occurred near a nursery in a residential area in Brovary near Kyiv, the capital.
Local reports say 18 people were killed, including other ministry officials and three children.
About 30 people injured have been taken to a hospital, including 15 schoolkids.
National Police Chief, Ihor Klymenko said Monastyrskyi died alongside his first deputy, Yevheniy Yenin.
The ill-fated chopper belonged to the state emergency service.
“There were children and staff in the nursery at the time of this tragedy”, said Kyiv Governor Oleksiy Kuleba.