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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth

Ukraine helicopter crash kills interior minister in Kyiv as fighting rages on in east

A general view of the site of a helicopter crash, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

Ukraine's interior minister and a child were among at least 14 people killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed into a nursery and set it ablaze in a suburb of the capital Kyiv.

Separately, Ukraine said its forces again blunted Russian attempts to advance on the frontline city of Bakhmut hundreds of kilometres (miles) away in the east, where both sides have taken heavy losses for scant gain in trench warfare since November.

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