In the morning of 18 January, a Ukrainian State Emergency Service helicopter crashed in the town of Brovary, a city in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. At least sixteen people got killed, including Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, his deputy, Yevhen Yenin, and the ministry’s secretary Yuriy Lubkovych, as well as two children, according to Ihor Klymenko, chief of Ukraine’s National Police.
Twenty-two people were hospitalized with injuries, of which ten children. Nine of the deceased were on board the helicopter, which crashed near a kindergarten.
The Kyiv Post reported: “The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs died as a result of the helicopter crash in Brovary: the minister, the first deputy minister and the state secretary.”