Daily Review (Wednesday) 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.
Meanwhile, President Voladymir Zelensky has approved the appointment of the country’s Ukraine’s national police chief, Ihor Klymenko, has been appointed acting interior minister after Denys Monastyrsky was killed along with other senior Ukrainian officials.
Daily Review learns that there is no evidence of foul play, many people blame Russia for targeting the country’s energy infrastructure which contributed to the crash because there is no warning signing available in the capital due to power outage.
Daily Review also learns that the late interior minister died as he was about to depart to the frontline to visit Ukrainian troops fight Russians in east of the country.