3 main figures in Ukraine's interior ministry killed...
The three key members of Ukraine's interior ministry perished in a helicopter accident next to a nursery in an eastern Kyiv suburb.
Along with his first deputy minister and state secretary, 42-year-old interior minister Denys Monastyrsky also passed away. Around 08:30 local time (06:30 GMT), the helicopter crashed in Brovary, killing seventeen persons, four of them were children, according to police.
No evidence exists that the collision was anything other than an accident.
However, the SBU state security service claimed that it was investigating a number of crash-related scenarios, including sabotage, a technical issue, or a violation of flight regulations.
The most well-known Ukrainian victim since the war started is Mr Monastyrsky, who was a long-time political advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The minister was on his way to a "hot area" in a conflict when his chopper crashed, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office. Volodymyr Tymoshenko, the head of police in Kharkiv, a city in Ukraine's northeast, claimed that the ministerial delegation was on its way to meet him there and that he had just had a conversation with them.
The interior ministry's crucial role in managing security and the police during the war makes the minister's passing particularly painful for the Kyiv government. A horrific tragedy that claimed the lives of "genuine patriots" was mentioned by President Zelensky.
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