Ukraine Interior minister, deputy among 18 killed in helicopter crash in Kyiv

KYIV, 19 January 2023, (TON): Eighteen people including Ukraine’s interior minister, other senior ministry officials and three children were killed when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.

The regional governor said 29 people were also hurt, including 15 children, when the helicopter came down in a residential area in Brovary, on the capital’s northeastern outskirts.

Several dead bodies draped in foil blankets lay in a courtyard near the damaged nursery. Emergency workers were at the scene. Debris was scattered over a playground.

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