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The Guardian - UK
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Isobel Koshiw in Brovary and Peter Beaumont

Ukraine’s interior minister killed in helicopter crash

Debris of a helicopter after it crashed in Brovary, near Kyiv.
The site in Brovary, a Kyiv suburb, where the helicopter crashed on Wednesday. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

At least 14 people including Ukraine’s interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky, and other senior officials have been killed after a helicopter crashed by a kindergarten in a suburb of Kyiv.

A number of children at the school in Brovary were among the casualties after debris hit the building. The most recent update, on Wednesday afternoon, suggested one child had been killed, after previous reports that the number was at least three.

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