A helicopter carrying senior Ukrainian officials crashed on Wednesday in a Kyiv suburb, damaging a kindergarten and a residential tower and killing more than a dozen people, including Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs and other pivotal figures in the wartime leadership.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, said on Telegram that an investigation was underway. “We will soon find out whether it was sabotage, a technical malfunction or a violation of flight safety rules,” he wrote.
The minister, Denys Monastyrsky, was the highest-ranking government official to die since Russia’s invasion began in February last year. There were conflicting accounts of the toll, but the latest information from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said that 14 people, including a child, were killed. The crash occurred at 8:20 a.m., a time of day when parents typically drop their children off at the school.
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