A helicopter crash in Ukraine has killed 18 people, including the country's interior minister and three children, Ukrainian authorities said.
A total of 29 people were injured in the crash on Wednesday (January 18), including 15 children, the regional governor said. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his deputy Yevhen Yenin, and State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yurii Lubkovych were among those killed, according to Ihor Klymenko, chief of Ukraine’s National Police.
Mr Monastyrskyi is the most senior Ukrainian official to have died since the start of the war with Russia almost 11 months ago. Nine of those killed were on board the emergency services helicopter that crashed in Brovary, an eastern suburb of the capital, Mr Klymenko said.
