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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth

Ukrainian interior minister killed in helicopter crash, Zelenskiy orders probe

A view shows the site where a helicopter falls on civil infrastructure buildings, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

A helicopter crashed in fog near a nursery outside Kyiv on Wednesday, killing 14 people, including Ukraine's interior minister, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called a "terrible tragedy," before calling for an investigation.

The crash set off a large fire, and an entire side of the local nursery building was charred. The Kyiv region's governor said children and staff had been in the nursery at the time of the crash shortly after 8 a.m. (0600 GMT).

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